SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean investigators again asked the country’s acting president on Saturday to order the presidential security service to comply with an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Security, along with military troops, prevented prosecutors from arresting Yoon Suk Yeol in a six-hour standoff inside Yoon’s compound on Friday. Investigators secured a warrant for Yoon’s arrest over his brief proclamation of a state of emergency last month.
The Bureau of Corruption Investigation for Senior Officials said on Saturday that it has again asked Acting President Choi Sang-mok, the state finance minister, to order the presidential security service to cooperate with the warrant.
A spokesman for the finance ministry declined to comment.
Yoon’s extraordinary statement on December 3 stunned South Korea and led to the first arrest warrant issued for a sitting president.
