Lee Jae-yong escaped arrest after a court in Seoul denied prosecutors’ request to detain him. Lee spent almost a year in jail until February 2018 for his role in a separate scandal.

It appears that prosecutors have secured considerable amount of evidence through their investigation, but they fell short of explaining the validity to detain Lee.’it is appropriate to determine whether the suspects are responsible and the degree (of their involvement) through sufficient trials and debates’.

Prosecutors may seek an arrest warrant again, or bring charges against Lee without detaining him. They called the decision’regrettable’ and said they will continue with the investigation.