South Korea investigators ask prosecutors to indict Yoon for insurrection, abuse of power


FILE PHOTO: South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/File Photo

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's anti-corruption officials on Thursday requested that prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for insurrection and abuse of power for his short-lived martial law declaration.

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) named Yoon, the first sitting president to be arrested in South Korea’s history, as the ringleader of an insurrection, also involving his defence minister of the time.

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