A joint investigative team attempts to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol amid escalating tensions with his supporters, opponents, police, and the Presidential Security Service.
SEOUL: As a joint investigative team led by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials moved to detain President Yoon Suk Yeol , tensions flared between his supporters, opponents, police and the Presidential Security Service outside his residence on Thursday (Jan 2).
Two days after the Seoul Western District Court issued an arrest warrant to hold Yoon for 48 hours on Tuesday, the CIO-led investigative team reiterated that it would execute the warrant before its expiration on Monday. The CIO -- part of the joint investigation along with the Korean National Police Agency’s National Office of Investigation and the Criminal Investigation Command of the Defence Ministry -- said it is still discussing the appropriate timing and how to exercise the warrant. “The exact date is yet to be announced, but we will take actions before the court-issued arrest warrant expires,” the CIO official told The Korea Herald on Thursday. When police made search and seizure attempts at the president’s residence in the past week, the Presidential Security Service blocked the investigators, reiterating the Criminal Procedure Act that states such measures “shall not be conducted at a place in respect of which military information shall be kept confidential, unless approval from the person in charge is obtained.” But the latest warrant dictates an exception to Articles 110 and 111 -- which cover military and public secrets, respectively, as relates to a seizure -- of the Criminal Procedure Act, allowing investigators to push ahead. Oh Dong-woon, head of the CIO, said Wednesday that the investigators will execute the arrest warrant in accordance with the principles and have asked the Presidential Security Service to cooperate with the imminent arrest. The CIO chief also stated any action to deny the arrest order, including closing the door of the presidential residence, locking the gates and setting up a barricade, could be considered obstruction of official dutie
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