South Korean prosecutors are set to indict President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of leading an insurrection and abuse of power after the court rejected their request to extend his detention. Yoon has refused to cooperate with investigators and has remained silent during questioning.
SEOUL: South Korea n Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung on Sunday convened a meeting with chief and deputy chief prosecutors from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and district prosecutors' office to decide how further to proceed with President Yoon Suk Yeol's case.
Although he was arrested, Yoon refused to appear for questioning six times, except for the interrogation on the first day of his arrest, during which he remained silent. The court’s consecutive rejections on Friday and Saturday left the prosecution with little choice but to indict him sooner than expected, as the arrest warrant is set to expire at midnight on Monday.
This not only complicates the prosecution's plan to conduct a face-to-face interrogation with Yoon by visiting the Seoul Detention Center during the Lunar New Year holiday, but also puts pressure on them to proceed with the trial based on the evidence gathered so far, with no possibility of further physical investigation.
CIO, who initially handled Yoon’s investigation, handed over the some 30,000 page-long investigation records as well as testimonies of some 10 high-level military and police officials related to the Dec 3 incident.
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