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Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol Officially Arrested by Police

TB (according to VNA) January 15, 2025 09:42

South Korea's anti-corruption agency investigating high-ranking officials announced that an arrest warrant has been issued for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Đụng độ giữa các điều tra viên với lực lượng an ninh bảo vệ Tổng thống và những người ủng hộ ông Yoon Suk-yeol, khi các điều tra viên lần thứ hai thực thi lệnh bắt giữ Tổng thống bị luận tội ngày 15/1/2025
Clashes between investigators and security forces protecting the President and supporters of Yoon Suk-yeol, as investigators for the second time execute an arrest warrant for the impeached President on January 15, 2025

On January 15, CNA news site reported that South Korean authorities had arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The Corruption Investigation Office for Senior Officials (CIO) announced that the arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was executed at 10:33 a.m. on January 15 local time (8:33 a.m. Vietnam time).

Earlier, the lawyer of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol said that to prevent clashes between the presidential security force and the police, impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol decided to go to the CIO on January 15.

Lawyer Seok Dong Hyun said that although impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol said the investigation and arrest were illegal, he accepted to prevent bigger incidents from arising when carrying out the arrest warrant.

Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol will make a public statement.

Also on the morning of January 15, South Korean police deployed a large force of more than 3,200 riot police and investigators to execute an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence in central Seoul.

TB (according to VNA)
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