South Korean court extends arrest warrant for impeached Yoon
Al Jazeera
The impeached former president has refused questioning three times since his bungled December 3 martial law decree.
South Korea’s anticorruption agency says it has received an extension to the court warrant to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) on Tuesday did not immediately confirm how long the warrant would remain effective. After a previous attempt to arrest Yoon was blocked by the Presidential Security Service last week, the investigators applied to have the warrant, which was due to expire on Monday, extended.
The Seoul Western District Court had initially issued a warrant to arrest Yoon, and a separate warrant to search his residence, after he defied authorities by refusing to appear for questioning over the December 3 martial law decree.
Dozens of anticorruption agency investigators and assisting police officers attempted to arrest Yoon on Friday, but retreated from his residence in Seoul after a tense standoff with the Presidential Security Service that lasted more than five hours.
