By unusuma.lk on (LK time)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the country’s anti corruption agency, in the latest part of a weekslong political saga that began with the embattled president’s shock martial law decree last month.
Yoon left his residential compound with investigators in a motorcade Wednesday morning and was taken into custody – the first time such an action has been taken against a living president in South Korea.
Yoon is wanted for questioning in multiple investigations linked to his short-lived declaration, including over accusations of leading an insurrection – a crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death sentence.
The embattled president has been holed up in his fortified home for weeks surrounded by his Presidential Security Service team, evading arrest as he faces several probes and an impeachment trial.
The Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which is working with police and the defense ministry to investigate Yoon, first attempted to detain him earlier this month, but it failed after an hours-long showdown in which soldiers and members of the presidential security detail blocked some 80 police and investigators from approaching the presidential compound.
