Cooperation Agency requests a warrant for President Yoon's arrest...a compulsory investigation into a failure to comply with a summons.

2024.12.30. AM 11:01
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The Joint Investigation Headquarters, set up by the High-ranking Civil Servants Crime Bureau and the police, has requested a warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol's arrest.

The government said it filed a warrant for President Yoon's arrest at midnight today for civil war and abuse of authority with the Seoul Western District Court.

If an arrest warrant is issued by the court, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit is expected to try to secure President Yoon's whereabouts.

The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit notified President Yoon of the third summons at 10 a.m. yesterday (29th) to come out as a suspect and be investigated, but he did not attend.

Earlier, President Yoon refused to receive both requests for attendance on the 18th and 25th, and it has been found that he has not even submitted a lawyer appointment so far.Yoon Gap-geun, a lawyer for President Yoon

, argued that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit would not be able to request an arrest warrant, and that it would be dismissed even if it did.Attorney

Yoon protested that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit does not have the authority to investigate rebellion, and that the Joint Investigation Headquarters is a voluntary organization with no legal basis.



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