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Yoon’s Lawyers File Insurrection Complaint Against Anti-Corruption Agency Chief, Others


Seoul: Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s defense team on Thursday filed an insurrection complaint against the police investigation chief and the head of the anti-corruption agency investigating the president over his short-lived martial law bid. Yoon’s lawyers said they have filed the complaint against Oh Dong-woon, the chief of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), Woo Jong-soo, chief of the National Office of Investigation, and others, with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors office.



According to Yonhap News Agency, the lawyers accused them of illegally entering the presidential residence, which is a military secret by law, and detaining the president, arguing that this constitutes insurrection, as well as obstruction of official duties and a breach of military secrets. “They mobilized more than 3,700 police personnel to break into the presidential residence and arrested the president in violation of articles of the criminal procedure law,” Yoon’s legal team argued.



On Wednesday, CIO and police investigators arrested Yoon in their second attempt to detain him for investigation after he had defied summons to appear for questioning three times on his aborted martial law on Dec. 3. The Constitutional Court began an impeachment trial on Tuesday to decide on Yoon’s fate.

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