A South Korean court has reissued an arrest warrant for the country’s ousted president, Yoon Suk Yeol, the country’s corruption investigation agency said on Tuesday.
On Friday (3), arrest Suk Yeol on sedition charges after a several-hour standoff at the official residence in Seoul.
The operation was interrupted after resistance from the presidential security team. According to an official statement from the body responsible for the investigation, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO), compliance with the warrant became “impossible due to the prolonged impasse”, highlighting that Yoon’s refusal was “deeply regrettable”.
The attempted arrest came after Yoon declared martial law last month, a measure that plunged the country into a serious institutional crisis and resulted in his impeachment by Parliament in December. The president is out of office and the Constitutional Court is expected to begin the trial on his continued tenure on January 14.
(com Reuters)
