That is the primary ruling to return out of the quite a few ongoing trials associated to Yoon’s abortive declaration of martial legislation in December 2024
On Jan. 13, 2026, former President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks on the last listening to of his trial on fees of main an revolt along with his abortive declaration of martial legislation one yr earlier. (courtesy of the Seoul Central District Court docket)
A Korean court docket has sentenced former President Yoon Suk-yeol to 5 years in jail after convicting him on fees that included obstructing an try by investigators to arrest him final yr. That is the primary court docket judgment ensuing from a number of trials associated to Yoon’s ill-fated declaration of martial legislation in December 2024.
Choose Baek Dae-hyeon of the Seoul Central District Court docket returned the decision Friday in opposition to Yoon, who was charged with aggravated obstruction of justice, abuse of authority and falsification of official paperwork.
Yoon was accused of mobilizing the Presidential Safety Service to forestall the execution of the Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-ranking Officers’ arrest warrant on Jan. 3, 2025. He was additionally charged with infringing the authorized rights of Cupboard members who have been excluded from a gathering in regards to the martial legislation declaration, in addition to with drafting, and later destroying, a written martial legislation declaration after the actual fact.
Yoon was moreover indicted on the cost of instructing members of his presidential safety and army commanders concerned within the martial legislation declaration to delete data from their safe telephones.
Throughout their last arguments on Dec. 26, prosecutors underneath particular counsel Cho Eun-seok had requested the court docket to condemn Yoon to a mixed whole of 10 years: 5 years for blocking efforts to arrest him; three years for infringing on Cupboard members’ rights, destruction of proof on safe telephones, and promulgation of false details about the martial legislation declaration; and two years for composing a martial legislation proclamation after the actual fact.
By Park Ji-young, employees reporter
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