A joint research team announced this Monday the request for an arrest warrant against the president of South KoreaYoon Suk Yeol, -momentarily dismissed from his duties– for his declaration of martial law at the beginning of December, for insurrection and abuse of power after ignoring up to three summonses to be questioned about the controversial decision.
The team composed of the Corruption Investigation Office for Senior Officials (CIO), the Police and the investigation unit of the Ministry of Defense They have filed the petition with the Western District Court of the South Korean capital, Seoul.
In the application, investigators allege that Yoon led a insurrection and abuse of office when he declared a state of emergency on December 3 and supposedly ordered the Army to prevent the deputies present in Parliament from voting against the decree.
The now deposed president has denied the accusationsdefending that the declaration of martial law was a “government act” to warn the opposition party, which has a majority in the National Assembly, against what he described as an abuse of legislative power, which seeks to support the Korean regime northern.
Yoon’s defense has promised to take “formal measures” in response. “It is a request from an agency that does not have the authority to investigate (the insurrection charges),” he said. to the South Korean news agency Yun Gap-geun, one of the legal representatives of the president, dismissed in a motion approved by the National Assembly last Friday.
The Constitutional Court of the Asian country must decide between now and June whether it restores its powers or permanently disqualifies it.
