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Yoon faces becoming the first sitting president to be arrested in the country’s history.
South Korean authorities have arrived at the residence of President Yoon Suk-yeol to arrest the leader blamed for his short-lived declaration of martial law.
Dozens of police and anti-corruption investigators stormed the gate of Yoon’s compound in Seoul early Friday morning to execute an arrest warrant for his brief imposition of martial law on Dec. 3, which plunged the East Asian nation into its own crisis. deepest political in decades.
“The execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol has begun,” the Office of Corruption Investigation for Senior Officials said in a statement.
It is unclear whether Yoon, who is being investigated on suspicion of sedition and abuse of power, will cooperate with authorities seeking to arrest him.
Speculation about when and how authorities would take Yoon into custody has been rife since a Seoul court earlier this week granted prosecutors’ request for an arrest warrant.
Yoon’s security detail has previously blocked investigators from executing some search warrants directed at the president.
In a defiant New Year’s message to supporters gathered outside his residence, Yoon vowed to “fight to the end” against “anti-state forces”.
If arrested, Yoon will be the first president in South Korean history to be arrested.
