South Korean investigators were unable to execute an arrest warrant against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol due to a standoff with the Presidential Security Service.
South Korea n investigators have halted attempts to detain the country's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after they were unable to execute an arrest warrant issued over his failed martial law bid. Authorities entered Yoon's home on Friday, but said that a 'sustained standoff' with the presidential security service had made it impossible to apprehend him, according to Yonhap news agency.
The suspended president is under criminal investigation for insurrection over his bungled martial law declaration on 3 December. The move led to his impeachment and has left him facing arrest, imprisonment, or, at worst, the death penalty. The saga marks the first time authorities have sought to arrest a sitting South Korean leader. Officials from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), which is leading a team of police and prosecutors investigating Yoon, entered his compound shortly after 7 am local time. Once inside, the CIO and accompanying police were blocked by Presidential Security Service (PSS) personnel and military troops, according to local media. South Korea's Ministry of National Defense said the troops were under the control of the PSS. The CIO called off the arrest attempt at around 1:30 pm local, saying it had become 'virtually impossible to execute' the warrant. In a statement, Yoon's lawyer described the warrant as invalid and said that Yoon would take legal action against it - while offering no further details. Some 2,700 police and 135 police buses were deployed to the area around Yoon's home to prevent clashes, Yonhap reported, after the president's supporters faced off with demonstrators. Yoon has been holed up inside the residence since a court approved the warrant to detain him earlier this week, vowing to 'fight' authorities seeking to question him over his failed martial law attemp
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