Samsung ‘Ghost shares’ ruling raises cost of brokerage control failures

A Supreme Court ruling against Samsung Securities over its 2018 “ghost shares” scandal has raised the stakes for Korea’s brokerages, showing that internal control failures can trigger civil liability to investors as well as regulatory penalties and trading losses. The top court on Wednesday ordered Samsung Securities to pay about 1.86 billion won ($1.31 million) in damages to the National Pension Service, upholding the compensation awarded by a lower court. The NPS had initially sought 29.9 bill