Investigators formally request extension of arrest warrant against suspended South Korean president

MADRID Jan. 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –

South Korea’s anti-corruption office formally requested this Friday an extension of the arrest warrant against the country’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, after the failure of efforts to execute it and just hours after its validity expired.

The Crime Investigation Office of Senior Public Officials (KOFIC) has already submitted the request to the court, according to a statement collected by the official South Korean news agency Yonhap.

“We have resubmitted the order to the Seoul Western District Court to extend the term of the detention order for President Yoon Suk Yeol,” the note reads. The Court will be the body that specifies the extension period of the order.

The suspended president is under this court order after refusing to appear on three occasions to face accusations of insurrection within the framework of the failed martial law that he declared on December 3 and that unleashed a political storm in the country.

Last Friday, a first attempt to arrest Yoon, barricaded in his presidential residence in Seoul, led to an open confrontation between the agents and his security detail, which finally made the investigators retreat.