SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea’s special counsel, investigating former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived martial law imposition, indicted the ousted leader with additional charges today, reported Xinhua.
Cho Eun-suk, independent counsel leading the investigation into Yoon’s insurrection from other charges, prosecuted the former president for abuse of power, obstruction of justice, forgery of official documents, violation of the Presidential Records Act, and committing other wrongdoings.
Yoon was charged with failing to follow proper procedures for the martial law imposition, ordering the presidential security service to block attempts in January to arrest him and giving orders to delete information on security phones offered to military commanders.
A warrant to detain Yoon, sought by the special counsel team that launched its investigation on June 18, was issued nine days earlier in fear that evidence would be destroyed by him.
Yoon was apprehended at the presidential office on January 15 and was held under detention on January 26, but was released on March 8 as prosecutors decided not to appeal against the court’s decision to free him.
The constitutional court upheld a motion to impeach Yoon on April 4 over his botched martial law bid last December, thus officially removing him from office. – BERNAMA-XINHUA
