SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – JANUARY 15: Investigators arrive on the entrance to the presidential residence of Yoon Suk Yeol, as authorities attempt to execute an arrest warrant, in Seoul, South Korea, on January 15, 2025.
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South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was reportedly arrested by the nation’s Corruption Investigation Office for High Ranking officers, a primary for a sitting South Korean chief.
This was the second bid to arrest the impeached president, following a failed try on Jan.3 when brokers from South Korea’s Presidential Security Service had blocked investigators from coming into Yoon’s residence.
About 3,000 cops had been concerned within the second try to safe entry to Yoon’s compound, information company Yonhap stated.
South Korean media shops additionally reported that Yoon in a pre-recorded video stated that “the legislation of the nation has collapsed,” and referred to as the CIO’s investigation “unlawful.” Yoon stated he would seem earlier than the CIO to “stop an disagreeable bloodshed,” in response to a Google translation of the reviews in Korean.
The CIO had initially requested the arrest warrant after Yoon failed to show up for questioning, which was granted on Dec. 31 by a Seoul district court. The warrant was then prolonged after it initially expired on Jan. 6.
Yoon faces costs of rebel after his failed declaration of martial legislation on Dec. 3, a cost which isn’t topic to presidential immunity and carries the demise penalty at most.
Yoon made a shock late night time broadcast and declared martial legislation final month, citing the necessity to shield the nation from “North Korean communist forces” and “antistate forces.” This was the primary time martial legislation was declared in South Korea in over 40 years.
Lawmakers then managed to get previous police barricades and voted down the declaration on the nation’s parliament, earlier than submitting impeachment motions in opposition to Yoon a number of days later. Yoon was impeached on Dec. 14 and suspended from workplace.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has opened the impeachment trial on Jan. 14 in opposition to Yoon, however adjourned it to Jan. 16 after Yoon didn’t flip up.
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