S Korean ex-president Yoon probed over martial law bid

South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol made a call under the threat of arrest because a private prosecutor has concentrated on an investigation into the proposal that failed to impose martial law in December.

Through his lawyers, Yoon protested the demands of the special prosecutor to violate his rights and to seek the attention of the media as a tactic to insult him publicly.

His lawyers said Yoon would respond to the investigation and tell the truth.

They described the investigation as “politically motivated” and “full of inaccuracies and deterioration”.

Yoon did not answer the questions of journalists when entering the private prosecutor.

In December, the martial law attempt shocked a country that was proud to be a democracy that overcome the military dictatorship in the 1980s.

Yoon was later dismissed by the Constitutional Court, which approved the objection made by the Parliament in April.

The Special Prosecutor sought a arrest warrant for rejecting Repeated calls on Yoon, but this week he was rejected by a court on the grounds that he had been a desire to cooperate since then.

The Special Prosecutor was appointed at the beginning of June and launched a team of more than 200 prosecutors and inspectors to take over the ongoing investigations of Yoon, a former prosecutor elected president in 2022.

Yoon is already tried for leading the December 3 Martial Law Declaration. In January, he was arrested after he resisted the authorities armed by a court order trying to detain him, but he was released 52 days later on legal techniques.