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Lee Jay-hyun occupe actuellement le rang #2915 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur conglomérats & diversifié). Fortune nette estimée : $1.3 B (+$306 sur 24h).
Lee Jay-hyun is chairman of the CJ Group, a conglomerate that operates the country's largest food and beverage company, CJ Cheiljedang.
He is the eldest grandson of the late Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull; CJ officially separated from Samsung in 1997.
In 2015, Lee Jay-hyun was convicted and sentenced to two and a half years in jail on embezzlement and tax evasion charges.
In 2016, he was pardoned by then president Park Geun-hye and returned to his post in 2017. He is facing a new tax evasion probe in 2025.
His CJ Group began as a sugar mill and boosted domestic sugar production just after the end of the Korean War.
In 1995, CJ paid $300 million for an 11% stake in Steven Spielberg's production vehicle Dreamworks SKG.