SEOUL: South Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol answered a summons on Saturday (Jun 28) by a particular prosecutor, underneath menace of one other arrest as investigation intensified over the ousted chief’s failed bid to impose martial regulation in December.
Yoon, by his attorneys, has protested the particular prosecutor’s calls for to seem for questioning underneath media consideration as a violation of his rights and a tactic to publicly humiliate him.
His attorneys stated in an announcement Yoon would reply to the investigation on Saturday and inform the reality. They described the investigation as “politically motivated” and “filled with falsehood and distortion”.
Yoon didn’t reply questions from reporters as he entered the particular prosecutor’s workplace.
The martial regulation try in December shocked a rustic that had prided itself on turning into a thriving democracy, having overcome army dictatorship within the Eighties.
Yoon was later ousted in April by the Constitutional Courtroom that upheld his impeachment by parliament.
The particular prosecutor sought a warrant to arrest Yoon for refusing to reply repeated summons earlier, however it was rejected by a court docket this week on grounds that he has since expressed willingness to cooperate.
The particular prosecutor was appointed in early June and has launched a group of greater than 200 prosecutors and investigators to take over ongoing investigations of Yoon, a former high prosecutor who was elected president in 2022.
Yoon is already on trial for main the December 3 martial regulation declaration. He had been arrested in January after resisting authorities armed with a court docket warrant making an attempt to take him into custody, however was launched after 52 days on authorized technicalities.
