The Public Prosecutor's Office is expected to consider the reasons for President Yoon's failure to appear and then launch a compulsory investigation, including requesting an arrest warrant.
According to the Korean legal profession on the 25th, the Public Prosecutor's Office delivered the second summons on the 20th and then this afternoon
At 10 a.m., the Gwacheon government investigation team was waiting for President Yoon to appear. Attorney Seok Dong-hyun, who is part of President Yoon's investigative defense team, met with reporters yesterday and said, "I will appear tomorrow.
President Yoon plans to respond to the impeachment hearing at the Constitutional Court first, and then respond to the investigation by the investigative authorities.
President Yoon has not responded to the first request to appear on the 18th. President Yoon is currently in the midst of a criminal investigation led by Kim Hong-ki-il (68), former chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, who served as the chief of the central investigation department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.
However, he had not yet submitted a notice of appointment of a lawyer by yesterday, the day before the date of the notice to appear at the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Earlier, Oh Dong Woon, head of the Public Prosecutor's Office, said at a plenary session of the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee yesterday,
"We hope that the president will definitely make time to appear at the public prosecutor's office," he said. "The investigation is scheduled to start at 10 a.m., but we would like to wait a little longer."
If President Yoon ultimately does not appear, the Public Prosecutors' Office plans to consider sending him a third summons or seeking an arrest warrant and forcibly taking him into custody.
2024/12/25 11:45 KST
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