The Supreme Court has ordered Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee to appear before a trial court in Ghaziabad in a criminal case and surrender in six weeks. In effect, the SC directs that the arrest warrant against Lee Kun-hee not be executed for six weeks.

This comes after the the Samsung Chairman approached the apex court seeking that a criminal case and non bailable warrants issued against him be quashed.

The complaint against Samsung and Lee Kun-hee is that they failed to honour a payment of $ 1.4 million. The Allahabad High Court, dismissing a similar petition in 2013, had called the Samsung Chairman an absconder and fugitive.

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