South Korean investigators seek President Yoon's indictment over martial law bid
Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials requests that president be charged with leading an insurrection as case transferred to prosecution
Suspended South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol attends first impeachment hearing in Seoul
ANKARA
South Korea's anti-corruption agency filed a request with prosecutors Thursday to indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid last month.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) said it requested that Yoon be charged with leading an insurrection and abuse of power as it transferred the case to the prosecution, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported.
Yoon, who plunged the nation into its worst political crisis in modern history through his short-lived martial law declaration on Dec. 3, is facing insurrection charges.
He is currently being held at the Seoul Detention Centre while a trial at the Constitutional Court is also under way to determine whether to uphold or dismiss his impeachment by the National Assembly.
The court must decide on the matter within a 180-day period that began on Dec.14, the date the National Assembly voted to impeach Yoon.
If his impeachment is upheld, the disgraced president will be removed from office, triggering a snap election within 60 days. If it is overturned, however, he will be reinstated.
