President Yoon's first investigation 'refused to make a statement'...Seoul Detention Center Detention

2025.01.15. PM 11:51
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[Anchor]
President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was arrested on charges of leading a rebellion, was detained at the Seoul Detention Center after completing an investigation at the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit at around 9:40 p.m.President Yun

exercised his right to remain silent throughout the investigation.

I'm connecting the reporter in front of the Seoul Detention Center.

Reporter Lim Yejin! President

Yoon, are you in detention now?

[Reporter]
Yes, around 9:50 p.m., several vehicles of President Yoon and the bodyguard entered the Seoul Detention Center here.

President Yoon's supporters gather in front of the detention center to cheer with loudspeakers,
President Yoon is expected to spend the night in the suspect's living room, which is a solitary cell of around 3 pyeong.

The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit started investigating President Yoon at the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit building in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do from 11 a.m. and finished at around 9:40 p.m.

It took about 10 hours and 40 minutes, and it was confirmed that President Yoon refused to answer all the time and refused to make a statement.

In addition, he refused to read the record and left the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit building without stamping it.

The arrested suspect can conduct a late-night investigation without consent, but the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit seems to have decided that it is not necessary to conduct an overnight investigation as President Yoon is exercising his right to remain silent.The investigation was not recorded today due to the refusal of President

Yoon, and it was found that the title was written as the President and the suspect in the record.

[Anchor]
President Yoon requested an arrest investigation, right?

[Reporter]
Yes, President Yoon said he filed an arrest investigation with the Seoul Central District Court shortly after the investigation of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit was completed.

At a press conference in the afternoon, he changed his position, saying that the execution of arrest warrants by the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit was clearly illegal, but that he did not consider arrest suitability.

It is also noteworthy that the Central District Court requested an arrest warrant to the Central District Court, not the Western District Court, where the arrest warrant was issued.President Yun

has always insisted that the warrant issued by the Western District Court is illegal.

Earlier, the Seoul Western District Court issued two arrest warrants for President Yoon in recognition of the right to investigate the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, and rejected President Yoon's objection.

[Anchor]
How is the future schedule expected?

[Reporter]
As the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit has secured recruits with difficulty, it is expected that President Yoon will be called to the Gwacheon Government Complex tomorrow to continue the investigation.

Intensive investigations are expected to follow to check all of the more than 200 pages of questionnaires.

The results are expected to affect future investigations as President Yoon's side claims an arrest suit,

The Public Prosecutor's Office must request an arrest warrant within 48 hours from 10:33 a.m. when President Yoon was arrested, excluding the time it took to investigate the arrest suit.

It remains to be seen when the arrest warrant date will be designated, but the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit plans to request an arrest warrant tomorrow evening at the latest without completing 48 hours.

So far, I'm YTN Lim Ye-jin at the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi-do.

Reporter Shin Hong



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