SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s anti-corruption company has requested that police take over efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after its investigators didn’t convey him to custody following an hours-long standoff with the presidential safety service final week.
The company and police confirmed the dialogue on Monday, hours earlier than the one-week warrant for Yoon’s detention was to run out. The Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-ranking Officers will probably search a brand new courtroom warrant to increase the window for Yoon’s detention, in accordance with police.
The Seoul Western District Courtroom had issued a warrant to detain Yoon on Dec. 31, after he dodged a number of requests by investigators to look for questioning.
The anti-corruption company, which leads a joint investigation with police and army investigators, is weighing costs of riot after the conservative president, apparently pissed off that his insurance policies have been blocked by a legislature dominated by the liberal opposition, declared martial legislation on Dec. 3 and dispatched troops to encompass the Nationwide Meeting.
