South Korea’s detained ex-president detained Yoon Suk Yeol Investigators refused to take questions from investigators again on Friday by holding a new method to oppose: he took out his prison uniform and lay on the floor in his custody room.
Yoon, who was removed from office in April because of his unfortunate imposition of war law, was sent back to prison last month when he put a trial with great commitment to rebellion and other charges. Yoon, a conservative, faces investigations into other criminal accusations that do not contain his wife and others, his wife and others.
On Friday, Min Joong-Ki, a special consultant named by his liberal rival and new President Lee Jae Myung, sent Yoon from a detention center near SEOUL after the former president met twice the inquiries to participate in questionemania. The Min team has commissioned to deal with Yoon’s wife Kim Keon Hee, including those that she and her husband practice the nomination process of the then party of the then party in 2022.
Mine’s team had a judicial arrest warrant that authorized her to bring Yoon out of his detention center by force, but said that you had hoped for his voluntary cooperation.
“Without wearing his prison uniform, the suspect stood up on the ground and resistance of his detention,” said the deputy special consultant Oh Jeong-Hee about a television assignment.
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Justice Minister Jung Sung-Ho told the legislators separately that Yoon moved out his shorts and short-medical shirt and withdrawn them to the investigators.
Oh said their team members failed to use physical means from security concerns, but Yoon notified that they would take the arrest warrant the next time. She asked Yoon to work together because the Korean carefully observed whether the implementation of the right is applied equally.
Yu Jeong-Hwa, a lawyer from Yoon, accused the special consultation team on how to discuss Yoons and honor about his dress in prison, according to the local media reports.
Yoon’s defense team previously said that Yoon could not be able to participate in his process and to question investigators due to heath problems. In an explanation on Thursday, they said that Yoon had cardiovascular, autonomous nervous system and eye problems. They quoted an unidentified hospital with the statement that Yoon is exposed to the risk of blindness because he had not received any medical treatment in the past three months.
Yoons imposed on war law, which brought armed troops into the streets of the Seoul, only took a few hours before the legislator unanimously removed its decree.
Yoon has argued that his decree was a desperate attempt to publicly support his fight against the “malice” of the Democratic Party of Lee, then the main opposition party, which his agenda had hindered, accused top officials and opened the government’s proposed budget.
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