MADRID 29 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, has refused for the third time this Sunday to testify in the framework of the investigation into the controversial martial law declared at the beginning of December and which has cost him his dismissal, increasing the possibilities that the investigating agency issues a judicial arrest warrant against him.
After previously refusing on two other occasions, the Anti-Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which is leading the case against Yoon, had summoned the president to his office in Gwacheon, southern Seoul at 10 a.m. ( local time), without him having attended the meeting, the South Korean news agency Yonyhap reported.
Yoon Suk Yeol’s repeated contempt could lead to the CIO issuing a warrant to arrest the president, since three is the maximum number of subpoenas that the investigating entity is required to present before requesting an arrest warrant. suspicious, according to the same media.
The president’s previous refusal occurred this Monday, after Yoon rejected a letter sent the previous week by the entity in charge of the investigation arguing that the impeachment process – in the hands of the Constitutional Court – should have priority. about this research.