How much did he have squirreled away?
[the prosecutor] said his team discovered 4.5 trillion won, or $4.54 billion, in hidden funds Lee kept in accounts held by his aides...Lee, however, did not pay at least 112.8 billion won in taxes on the profits from those stock accounts, Cho said.
That's over $100,000,000 in unpaid taxes. A hundo.
But the best part?
Cho accused Lee and his aides of committing a "grave crime," but said that he decided not to arrest them partly because they admitted to the wrongdoing and because their arrests would seriously disrupt the management of Samsung, which accounts for one-fifth of the country's total exports, and endanger the national economy.
Talk about your "get out of jail free" cards. Wowzers.