Samsung Group chief Jay Y Lee was arrested early today over his alleged role in a corruption scandal rocking the highest levels of power in South Korea, dealing a fresh blow to the world's biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips. <br/><br/>The 48-year-old Lee, scion of the country's richest family, was taken into custody at the Seoul Detention Center after waiting there overnight for the decision. <br/><br/>Lee is a suspect in the influence-peddling scandal that led parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye in December, a decision that if upheld by the Constitutional Court would make her the country's first democratically elected leader forced from office.