He was asked to appear for questioning three times, but all three times he ignored the summons.
A joint investigation team announced Monday that it has applied for an arrest warrant for the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeolfor his declaration of martial law on December 3, after the president ignored three subpoenas to be questioned about it.
The ad assumes the first time in democratic history of the Asian country where a president still in office risks being arrested.
Yoon He was fired on December 14 by the National Assembly (parliament), which has temporarily deprived him of his functions until the Constitutional Court decides between now and June whether his powers should be restored or whether he should be permanently disqualified.
The arrest request was submitted to a court in Seoul’s Western District around midnight today (15:00 GMT Sunday), as representatives of the aforementioned investigation team, which is part of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, explained to the media, to the police and to the research unit of the Ministry of National Defense.
The petition claims that Yoon led a rebellion and abused his office by declaring a state of emergency on December 3, and that he reportedly ordered the army to ban deputies from parliament vote against De your decision to withdraw it.
The parliamentarians ultimately managed to vote against it state of siegeapparently thanks to the refusal of intermediate military commanders to follow orders, forcing the president to revoke the state of emergency a few hours after issuing it.
Yoon, who is not allowed to leave the country, has denied the allegations arguing that his declaration of martial law was a “administrative act” which wanted to warn the opposition, which has a majority in parliament, about what it has described as an abuse of legislative power aimed at undermining the state and supporting the North Korean regime, with which the South is technically at war is.
He crime of rebellion is the only country where immunity does not prevail in South Korea, which punishes those deemed leaders of an uprising with life imprisonment or the death penalty (which has been under a moratorium in the Asian country since 1997). ).
Yoon’s legal representatives announced shortly after the news broke that they would file a brief protesting the request and reminded that technically only the Public Prosecution Service can apply for a preventive arrest warrant in South Korea.
Source: EITB
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