South Korean investigators attempted to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence on Friday over a failed martial law bid. Security forces reportedly blocked the attempt, raising questions about the Presidential Security Service's compliance with the warrant. If carried out, it would be the first time a sitting president in South Korean history is arrested.
South Korea n investigators sought to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence Friday over a failed martial law bid, but local media reported security forces were blocking their attempts. Yoon, who has already been suspended from duty by lawmakers, would become the first sitting president in South Korea n history to be arrested if the warrant is carried out.
The president, who issued a bungled declaration on December 3 that shook the vibrant East Asian democracy and briefly lurched it back to the dark days of military rule, faces imprisonment or, at worst, the death penalty. The Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which is probing Yoon’s short-lived declaration of martial law, said, ‘The execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol has begun,’ with its officials and police seen entering the president’s residence. CIO investigators including senior prosecutor Lee Dae-hwan were let through heavy security barricades to enter the residence to attempt to execute their warrant to detain Yoon, AFP reporters saw. They later ‘moved past’ that unit to ‘confront security service’ members inside the residence. It had been unclear whether the Presidential Security Service, which still protects Yoon as the country's sitting head of state, would comply with investigators' warrants. Members of his security team have previously blocked attempted police raids of the presidential residence, but it was not immediately clear which units had blocked investigators Friday. Yoon's legal team decried the attempt to execute the arrest warrant, vowing to take further legal action against the move. ‘The execution of a warrant that is illegal and invalid is indeed not lawful,’ Yoon’s lawyer Yoon Kap-keun said. Dozens of police buses and hundreds of uniformed police lined the street outside the compound in central Seoul, AFP reporters saw
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