SEOUL: The heir to the Samsung empire faces the verdict in his corruption trial Friday, which threatens to leave the world’s biggest smartphone maker rudderless for more than a decade.

Lee Jae-Yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and the son of Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-Hee, has been groomed all his life to take over the giant conglomerate founded by his grandfather in 1938.

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