SEOUL: A Seoul court docket rejected a second request on Saturday (Jan 25) to increase the detention of questioned President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed try and declare martial legislation, placing stress on prosecutors to shortly cost him.
Yoon was arrested final week on rebel costs, turning into the primary South Korean head of state to be detained in against the law probe.
His Dec. 3 martial legislation decree lasted solely about six hours earlier than it was voted on by lawmakers, nevertheless it nonetheless managed to plunge South Korea into its worst political disaster in many years.
The Seoul Central District Court on Saturday rejected a request for a detention extension, prosecutors stated in a quick assertion.
This follows a ruling by the identical court docket a day earlier when a decide stated it was “tough to search out ample grounds” to grant an extension.
Prosecutors had deliberate to maintain the disgraced chief in custody till February 6 for questioning earlier than formally naming him, however that plan will now need to be adjusted.
“With the court docket’s rejection of the extension, prosecutors should now work shortly to formally cost Yoon to maintain him behind bars,” Yoo Jung-hoon, a lawyer and political commentator, advised AFP.
Yoon has refused to cooperate with the felony investigation, together with his authorized protection group claiming investigators lack authorized authority.
The suspended president can be going through a separate listening to on the Constitutional Court which, if it helps his impeachment, will formally take away him from workplace.
An election would then need to be held inside 60 days.
