Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) officials took action for the second time to enforce the detention order against Yoon. Authorities detained Yoon at the presidential residence and took him to the CIO’s office in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, for questioning.
Investigators have 48 hours to apply to the court to formally arrest Yoon.
THIS TIME THEY DID NOT SHOW RESISTANCE
In their statement this morning, CIO officials stated that this time they will not wait for Yoon to surrender voluntarily, but will directly implement the order. It was reported that, unlike the first attempt, this time no head of state or PSS official resisted the detention.
However, the officials who initially went to the presidential residence were blocked by barricades created by PSS. Approximately 6,500 people supporting Yoon gathered around the residence, while MPs from the ruling People’s Power Party (PPP) also gathered in front of the residence to protest the decision.
While approximately 3 thousand police officers were kept around the residence as a precaution, it was stated that some investigators entered the residential campus by climbing the stairs, while others reached the residence by passing through the pathways surrounding the campus.
It was noted that the military unit guarding the presidential residence during the day approved the entry of police and CIO officials into the residence.
DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW IN SOUTH KOREA
In his speech on television on the night of December 3, 2024, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on the grounds that “the opposition was involved in anti-state activities”, but he took a step back when this decision was lifted in the parliament’s vote and approved by the Council of Ministers.
Yoon, whose dismissal was requested in the vote held by the National Assembly on December 14, 2024, was temporarily suspended from office until the decision of the Constitutional Court, and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was appointed as proxy.
At the initiative of the opposition, an impeachment decision was made for Prime Minister Han, who was acting president in the National Assembly vote on December 27, 2024, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Choi Sang-mok took over the presidency in Han’s place.
Source: AA