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Court docket’s issuance of warrant marks first time South Korean authorities have sought to detain a sitting president.
A South Korean court docket has issued an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over his short-lived declaration of martial legislation in a historic first.
Seoul Western District Court docket on Tuesday accredited the warrant following an earlier request by the Joint Investigation Headquarters, which is investigating the embattled South Korean chief for rebellion and abuse of energy.
“The arrest warrant and search warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, requested by the Joint Investigation Headquarters, had been issued this morning,” the Joint Investigation Headquarters mentioned in a press release.
The transfer marks the primary time authorities have sought to detain a sitting South Korean president.
It’s unclear when authorities would possibly try and take Yoon into custody.
Yoon’s safety element has beforehand blocked investigators from executing numerous search warrants on the presidential workplace compound and the president’s official residence.
Yun Hole-geun, a lawyer for Yoon, mentioned in a press release that the warrant is “unlawful and invalid”, arguing that the CIO doesn’t have authority to analyze the president.
Yoon’s attorneys CIO doesn’t maintain the authority to analyze rebellion expenses. He additionally claimed that the company isn’t a viable authority to file an arrest warrant request.
Yoon has been suspended from his duties since December 14, when the Nationwide Meeting voted for his impeachment in a 204-85 vote.
The conservative chief faces potential life imprisonment or the dying penalty over his temporary imposition of martial legislation on December 3, which has plunged the East Asian nation into its largest political disaster in a long time.
