Seoul: The Supreme Court is set to announce its verdict next week regarding charges against former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is accused of obstructing justice by preventing investigators from detaining him following his unsuccessful martial law attempt in 2024, legal sources revealed on Thursday.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the sentencing hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. next Thursday. This ruling will be the Supreme Court's initial decision concerning Yoon's charges related to his unexpected martial law declaration on December 3, 2024. The former president, currently imprisoned, allegedly commanded his bodyguards to obstruct investigators from executing a detention warrant against him in January 2025.

Yoon also faces accusations of infringing on the rights of nine Cabinet members by failing to convene a preliminary meeting to evaluate his martial law strategy. Additionally, he is charged with falsifying public records by altering the martial law proclamation post-lifting to obscure its procedural deficiencies and subsequently discarding the document.

In April, an appeals court imposed a seven-year prison sentence on Yoon after finding him guilty of these charges, which marked an increase of two years from the initial lower court's decision, though it remained below the 10 years recommended by a special counsel team. Yoon's primary trial on allegations of conducting an insurrection through the martial law attempt is still in progress at an appellate court, where he received a life sentence in the initial ruling.