SEOUL: Four members of the family who control South Korea’s troubled retail giant Lotte, including its 93-year-old founder, went on trial Monday for embezzlement, tax evasion and fraud.

The proceedings against company chairman Shin Dong-Bin, 61, his brother, sister and father—plus the patriarch’s mistress nearly 40 years his junior—come as the South’s fifth-biggest conglomerate endures a barrage of condemnation from China.

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