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The impeached South Korean president was taken into custody for questioning by South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office on Jan. 15.
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South Korean authorities have reportedly arrested the country’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, making him the first president to be taken into custody in years.
Yoon was taken from his residence on Jan. 15 for questioning over his controversial martial law ruling last month, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
Photos on social media platforms like X supposedly showed Yoon entering a vehicle that presumably took him in for questioning.
BREAKING: CIO says they executed the warrant to detain impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to question him over his botched martial law decree pic.twitter.com/SRSkWkZgV7
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Yoon was arrested by South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office after a warrant for his arrest was executed at 10:33 am local time, Yonhap News Agency reported.
South Korea’s legislature overrode Yoon’s martial law decree roughly six hours after it was declared on Dec. 3 local time.
Yoon was then impeached 11 days later, on Dec. 14.
This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.
This article first appeared at Cointelegraph.com News
