South Korea jails three Samsung Electronics executives over evidence destroyed in probe of alleged fraud

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Monday jailed three executives of Samsung Electronics for their role in a plot that included burying computers under factory floors at its biotech affiliate, in an investigation of alleged accounting fraud.Prosecutors began investigating the suspected fraud at Samsung Biologics after South Korea's financial watchdog complained the firm's value had been inflated by 4.5 trillion won (3 billion pounds) in 2015. The episode is the latest legal trouble..