Former Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun speaks throughout a listening to of former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial on the Constitutional Court docket in Seoul, Jan. 23. Courtesy of Constitutional Court docket
A courtroom on Wednesday issued warrants to increase the arrests of former Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun and former Protection Counterintelligence Commander Yeo In-hyung over costs associated to former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s temporary imposition of martial legislation.
The Seoul Central District Court docket issued the warrants on the request of a particular counsel workforce that investigated numerous suspicions related to the December 2024 martial legislation try.
Kim’s arrest had been set to run out Thursday, whereas Yeo’s had been set to finish Jan. 2.
In granting the request, the courtroom cited considerations the suspects would destroy proof.
By legislation, the utmost interval of arrest for a primary occasion trial is six months, however it may be prolonged if a defendant is indicted on further costs.
Each Kim and Yeo, who’ve been held in custody since final December over their roles within the martial legislation plan, had been moreover indicted final month on costs of aiding the enemy and energy abuse for allegedly ordering the dispatch of drones to Pyongyang round October 2024.
The dispatch, based on the workforce, was geared toward inciting the North’s retaliation and utilizing it as a pretext for Yoon’s martial legislation declaration two months later.
