South Korea investigators ask acting president to clear way for Yoon’s arrest – National

South Korean Investigators on Saturday again asked the country’s acting president to order the presidential security service to comply with an arrest warrant for the impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol.

The security service, along with military forces, prevented prosecutors from arresting Yoon Suk Yeol in a six-hour standoff at Yoon’s compound on Friday. Investigators secured the warrant to arrest Yoon over his brief statement of defense last month.

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The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which is investigating the case, said on Saturday that it had again asked Acting President Choi Sang-mok, the nation’s finance minister, to order the presidential security service to cooperate with the warrant.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Finance declined to comment.

Police asked the head of the Presidential Security Service, Park Chong-jun, to appear for questioning on Tuesday, Yonhap News reported.

Yoon’s Dec. 3 martial declaration stunned South Korea and led to the first arrest warrant issued for a sitting president.