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Anchor: Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been indicted on prices of revolt. The indictment comes 54 days after his ill-fated determination to impose martial legislation. He has develop into the primary sitting South Korean president to be indicted whereas behind bars.
Kim In-kyung has this report.
Report: The prosecution has indicted President Yoon Suk Yeol on prices that he masterminded an revolt.
Prosecutors introduced on Sunday that based mostly on the proof gained from their investigation of the president’s accomplices in addition to different proof secured by the police, it was applicable to indict him.
Yoon is accused of conspiring with former Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun and different navy and police officers to declare an unconstitutional and unlawful martial legislation.
The suspended president can be alleged to have instigated a rise up by dispatching martial legislation troops to the Nationwide Meeting.
It’s the first time in South Korea’s historical past {that a} sitting president has been indicted.
After the Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-ranking Officers(CIO), which doesn’t have indictment authority over the president, handed over the case on Thursday, the prosecution was anticipated to conduct a further investigation of its personal till early subsequent month earlier than making a choice on whether or not to indict Yoon.
Nonetheless, the prosecution charged the president a day earlier than Yoon’s pretrial detention interval was set to run out, after a Seoul courtroom twice rejected the prosecution’s request to increase his incarceration.
Yoon may be stored behind bars for as much as six months whereas his trial is held, though he can apply for bail.
The trial is anticipated to start on the finish of subsequent month, individually from Yoon’s impeachment trial which has already begun.
Yoon’s authorized workforce has argued that the president’s declaration of martial legislation can’t be thought-about against the law of revolt and that it’s time for the judiciary to make clear the reality.
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio Information.
