Samsung announced management changes, scrapping the 90-strong Strategic Planning Office. It acted as the "control tower" of the loose-knit group, which has 59 affiliates, but was implicated in the scandal. The group has created two decision-making committees of chief executives from various affiliates to address fears of a vacuum in decision-making. Acting chairman Lee Soo-Bin, the chairman of Samsung Life Insurance, was speaking after holding the first meeting with chief executives of affiliates since Lee Kun-Hee's departure.