SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean authorities investigating impeached President Yoon Seok Yeol were at his official residence on Wednesday to execute an arrest warrant over insurrection accusations related to his Dec. 3 martial law declaration.
Video footage showed vehicles from the investigating authorites in front of Yoon’s hill-side villa in Seoul, where he has been hold up for weeks.
Investigators were foiled on Jan. 3 from serving the first ever arrest warrant issued against a sitting South Korean president after a standoff with hundreds of presidential security agents and military guards.
Some 6,500 supporters of Yoon were gathered at the residence on Wednesday, and some ruling party lawmakers were forming a human chain to block the execution of the arrest warrant, Yonhap news agency said.
The team executing the arrest warrant, made up of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) and the police, secured a re-issued warrant on Jan. 7 and has held multiple meetings in a bid to ensure a successful execution.
(Reporting by Hyunsu Yim and Joyce Lee; Editing by Ed Davies)
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