Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit arrested President Yoon...the first time in constitutional history

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President Yoon Suk Yeol's Arrest Warrant Enforcement...Transfer to the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit
Arrested the incumbent presidential investigative agency
"Adding martial law troops to the National Assembly and the National Election Commission"…an allegation of rebellion
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Yoon Suk Yeol's president, who is accused of a rebellion, has been arrested by the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit 43 days after the emergency martial law.

It is the first time in constitutional history that an incumbent president has been arrested.

Reporter Yuh-hyun reports.

[Reporter]
Twenty minutes after the execution of the arrest warrant, the vehicle that sent the president of Yoon Suk Yeol enters the airlift.

After getting out of the car, President Yoon heads to the investigation room with an expressionless face under the cover of his bodyguards.

It is the first time in constitutional history that an incumbent president has been arrested by an investigative agency.President

Yoon is accused of rioting for the purpose of disorderly national constitution by declaring an emergency martial law on the 3rd of last month and sending armed martial law troops to the National Assembly and the National Election Commission.

Earlier, President Yoon refused to comply with all the requests for attendance in the joint newspaper and refused to receive the request for attendance itself.

Dong-A Ilbo received the first arrest warrant on the 31st of last month and attempted to execute it on the 3rd, but failed to block the security service.

The second arrest warrant was issued again, and within eight days, the police and the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit began a second round of execution.

After applying all-round pressure from 4:30 a.m., President Yoon was arrested in six hours.

The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, which immediately began investigating President Yoon, must decide whether to request an arrest warrant within 48 hours.

I'm YTN's YOSHIHYUN.

Filmmaker: Lee Seung-joon, Si Chul-woo, Park Jin-woo
Video editing: Ahn Hong-hyun


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