South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained hours after hundreds of the agency’s investigators and police officers arrived at his presidential compound to apprehend him.
A series of black SUVs, some equipped with sirens, were seen leaving the presidential compound with police escorts.
It marked their second attempt to detain him over his imposition of martial law last month. Investigators from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials had been negotiating with the president’s attorneys.
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