A particular counsel workforce moreover indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday on expenses of aiding the enemy together with his alleged dispatch of drones to North Korea final 12 months.
The workforce, led by particular counsel Cho Eun-suk, additionally charged Yoon with abuse of energy in reference to the order, which was allegedly given to impress the North’s retaliation and use it as a pretext for his declaration of martial legislation in December.
The particular counsel workforce has been investigating numerous allegations surrounding Yoon’s failed bid to impose martial legislation and beforehand charged him with obstructing his detention by investigators in January and violating the rights of Cupboard members within the technique of declaring the decree.
Individually, Yoon was indicted by prosecutors on expenses of main an rebellion via his martial legislation bid and has been jailed since July whereas standing trial.
The particular counsel workforce stated it additionally indicted former Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun and Yeo In-hyung, former head of the Protection Counterintelligence Command, on expenses of aiding the enemy and abusing their energy within the drone case.
Kim Yong-dae, head of the Drone Operations Command, was additionally indicted with out bodily detention on expenses of obstructing official duties and soliciting the drafting of false official paperwork.
In Yoon’s case, the particular counsel workforce had reportedly been contemplating making use of expenses of inciting overseas aggression, which required proof he had conspired with an enemy state.
As a substitute, it opted for the cost of “benefiting the enemy on the whole,” based mostly on its judgment that the drone dispatch in October 2024 led to the leak of army secrets and techniques to the North because the autos crashed close to Pyongyang.
