Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, also known professionally as Jay Y Lee, has been freed from prison.
A South Korean court suspended his five year jail term for bribing the country’s ex-president.
The appeals court upheld parts of the conviction, but used its discretion to release the executive.
Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports
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