Samsung Group”s new compliance committee will operate independently from the management to better monitor whether the South Korean top conglomerate complies with its own internal structure and related regulations, the committee”s chief has said.
“The compliance monitoring committee will be independently operated and be totally free from Samsung”s intervention as independence and autonomy are crucial,” former Supreme Court Justice Kim Ji-hyung told reporters in Seoul.
The new committee comes as part of Samsung”s efforts to recover its reputation tarnished by a series of scandals involving its top executives, including the group”s de facto heir Lee Jae-yong, Yonhap news agency has reported.