He refused to attend and was arrested, but...Arrested after 47 days of martial law

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President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested 47 days after declaring an emergency martial law (as of the 19th).

Reporter Kwon Min-seok summarized the investigation process from the declaration of emergency martial law to arrest.

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[Yoon Suk Yeol / President (December 3 last year): Declares emergency martial law.]

President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached 10 days after the lifting of the emergency martial law, was asked to appear five times by the prosecution, police and the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, but all did not comply.

After the controversy over the overlapping investigation, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, which took the lead in the investigation, immediately began the arrest process,

[Oh Dong-woon / Director of Criminal Investigation for High-ranking Public Officials (last 1st): We will exercise our authority in accordance with the principle of the arrest warrant and the search warrant.]

At the time of the first execution attempt, he withdrew empty-handed in about five hours and was at the center of controversy.

Afterwards, after implementing a 'strong-on-two-sided' strategy of pressuring the command of the security service and cajoling the employees,

Second arrest warrant execution arrested a sitting president for the first time in constitutional history without physical conflict.

President Yoon refused to make a specific statement in the investigation of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and requested the Seoul Central District Court to confirm the legality of his arrest.

Although the arrest warrant issued by the Seoul Western District Court was illegal, the court rejected it two hours after the interrogation, saying there was no reason for the claim.

The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, which received power, also requested an arrest warrant for President Yoon to the Seoul Western District Court and obtained an arrest warrant.

I'm Kwon Minseok of YTN.