Hyundai boss prison sentence not to affect works on Czech plant

The Czech branch of the South Korean car-maker Hyundai Motors says the fact that company head Chung Mong-Koo faces a three-year prison sentence for misusing company money will not affect the building of a car plant in Nosovice in the northeast of the country. The plant should be launched this spring and is expected to turn out up to 300,000 cars a year and employ 3,500 people.