SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – JANUARY 15: Investigators reach at the enthrall to the plivential livence of Yoon Suk Yeol, as authorities try to carry out an arrest authorization, in Seoul, South Korea, on January 15, 2025.
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South Korean plivent Yoon Suk Yeol was increateedly arrested by the country’s Corruption Investigation Office for High Ranking officials, a first for a sitting South Korean directer.
This was the second bid to arrest the impeached plivent, adhereing a fall shorted finisheavor on Jan.3 when agents from South Korea’s Plivential Security Service had blocked scatterigators from go ining Yoon’s livence.
About 3,000 police officers were take partd in the second finisheavor to safe access to Yoon’s compound, novels agency Yonhap shelp.
South Korean media outlets also increateed that Yoon in a pre-recorded video shelp that “the law of the country has collapsed,” and called the CIO’s scatterigation “illegitimate.” Yoon shelp he would materialize before the CIO to “impede an unpleasant violence,” according to a Google translation of the increates in Korean.
The CIO had initiassociate asked the arrest authorization after Yoon fall shorted to turn up for inquireing, which was granted on Dec. 31 by a Seoul didisjoine court. The authorization was then extfinished after it initiassociate expired on Jan. 6.
Yoon faces indicts of rebellion after his fall shorted declaration of martial law on Dec. 3, a indict which is not subject to plivential immunity and carries the death penalty at peak.
Yoon made a surpascfinish tardy night widecast and proclaimd martial law last month, citing the insist to get the country from “North Korean communist forces” and “antistate forces.” This was the first time martial law was proclaimd in South Korea in over 40 years.
Lawproducers then handled to get past police barricades and voted down the declaration at the country’s parliament, before filing impeachment motions agetst Yoon a restricted days tardyr. Yoon was impeached on Dec. 14 and suspfinished from office.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has discleave outed the impeachment trial on Jan. 14 agetst Yoon, but adjourned it to Jan. 16 after Yoon did not turn up.
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