The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) arrested President Yoon Suk-yeol on Jan. 15, roughly five hours and 20 minutes after initiating efforts to execute an arrest warrant.
The CIO, working with a joint investigation team of police officers, announced that the warrant was enforced at 10:33 a.m. A motorcade believed to be transporting President Yoon departed the presidential residence in Hannam-dong and is en route to the CIO headquarters.
The operation began earlier in the day at approximately 5:10 a.m., when CIO investigators and police presented arrest and search warrants to Yoon’s legal team at the residence. They then proceeded with the enforcement process.
In contrast to the first attempt to execute the arrest warrant on Jan. 3, the Presidential Security Service reportedly did not actively interfere with the warrant’s execution this time.
