By Cho Bo-heePosted : January 15, 2025, 11:50Updated : January 15, 2025, 11:54
SEOUL, January 15 (AJP) - Investigators arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday and transferred him to the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) for questioning regarding his failed martial law declaration on Dec. 3. He is the first sitting president in South Korean history to be arrested.
President Yoon Suk Yeol delivers a statement at his official residence in Seoul on Jan. 15, 2025, before departing for the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. Courtesy of the presidential office.
A convoy of motorcades, believed to be carrying impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, departs his official residence in Seoul on Jan. 15, 2025, en route to the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. Yonhap