improper requests to the president seeking favors” and that it will “do our best to ensure that the truth is revealed in future court proceedings.”

Almost immediately after the indictment was announced, Samsung unveiled wholescale changes at the conglomerate.

The group said it would close its Corporate Strategy Office, a powerful unit sometimes referred as the group’s “control tower,” and that the vice chairman, president and all team managers would resign. Samsung said that Park Sang-jin, a president at the flagship Samsung Electronics, had also stood down. Samsung furthermore said it would disband its government relations division in response to allegations that the conglomerate had been lobbying at various levels of government.

The indictment and shake-up is another blow to Samsung, already reeling from the embarrassing recall of its exploding Galaxy Note 7 smartphone last year and stuck in a kind of limbo while Lee Kun-hee remains unconscious in the hospital.

Samsung is so ubiquitous in South Korea — with everything from shipbuilding and construction to a life insurance and a baseball team — that the country is derided by people who bristle at its influence.

While the four-month-long special prosecutors’ investigation into the scandal finished on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court heard final arguments Monday in the case of the president’s impeachment. The National Assembly voted overwhelmingly in December to impeach Park and the court is now deciding whether to uphold the motion.