Saturday, 12 April 2014
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, who is facing an arrest warrant, the Supreme Court has directed him to appear before a Ghaziabad court in a $1.4 million dollar cheating case filed against him. A bench of justices C K Prasad and P C Ghose, however, directed that the arrest warrant issued against 72-year-old Lee for his non-appearance in the case before the trial court will not be executed for a period of six weeks.
"However, the warrant of arrest issued against the petitioner (Lee) shall not be executed for a period of six weeks from today (March 31). "In the meanwhile, the petitioner shall appear before the trial court in seisin(hearing) of the case and seek bail and/or exemption from appearance in accordance with law," the bench said.
A complaint was filed by an Indian company, JCE consultancy, against Lee in the Ghaziabad court for allegedly cheating it of $1.4 million. Lee had then approached the high court and the Supreme Court for quashing of FIR against him but his plea was rejected by both the courts earlier.
