Samsung Electronics (KS:005930) VP Kang Kyung-hoon got a 16-month prison term on Friday on charges of association busting activities, South Korean media provided details regarding Friday.
Kang and others acted to obstruct the arrangement and activities of an autonomous worker's guild at member Samsung Everland, an amusement park administrator and part of Samsung C&T (KS:028260), media reports said.
Among 12 individuals prosecuted with Kang, one previous official executive got a 10-month prison term, while others got suspended prison terms or in one case, a fine, Yonhap news office detailed.
In 2016, South Korea's Supreme Court controlled the dismissal of the representative engaged with efforts to frame an association at Samsung Everland was a harsh sanction, and the organization reinstated him.
Lawyers for Kang and Samsung C&T were not quickly accessible for input. Samsung Electronics declined to remark.
The spokesman for Seoul Central District Court couldn't promptly confirm the decision.
South Korea has ground-breaking auto unions yet the nation's general association support rate is around 10%, the second-lowest among Organization for Economic Co-activity and Development countries.
At Samsung Group, the rate is even lower.
Kang worked in the combination's world class strategy office until it was disbanded in 2017 in the wake of a defilement scandal.
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee is entangled in separate trials in the gift scandal including previous South Korean president Park Geun-hye.
Friday's case follows a Monday deciding that imprisoned three Samsung Elec executives sentenced for concealing proof in a supposed bookkeeping misrepresentation test.