Lee left the special prosecution office without answering reporters’ questions and headed to a waiting car.
Prosecutors have been investigating whether Samsung provided 30 billion won (21 million pounds) to a business and foundations backed by Park’s friend, Choi Soon-sil in exchange for the national pension fund’s support for a 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates.
The special prosecutor’s office said it would decide by Sunday whether to seek a warrant to arrest 48-year-old Lee, the third-generation leader of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, or chaebol. There were no plans to bring him in for further questioning.
Lee denied some of the suspicions against him but had admitted to others, said Lee Kyu-chul, a spokesman for the special prosecutors’ office who declined to elaborate.
A Samsung spokeswoman declined to comment. The corruption scandal has engulfed the highest reaches of South Korea’s elite, with Park impeached by parliament in December, a decision that must be upheld or overturned by the Constitutional Court.
Park, who has been stripped of her powers in the meantime, has denied wrongdoing. Lee was named as a suspect on Wednesday and summoned for questioning.
-Reuters/NAN
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