Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been freed from jail after a South Korean court suspended his five year jail term for bribing the country’s ex-president.

An appeals court upheld parts of the conviction, but used its discretion to release the executive.

South Korea’s supreme court is expected to appeal against the decision.

The case gripped the public amid growing anger against the country’s biggest companies, known as chaebols.

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