Police said Monday that they requested arrest orders for two senior officials of the presidential security service accused of obstructing the attempt of the investigators to stop the defendant President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The National Office of Investigation submitted applications to the Office of Prosecutors of the West District of Seoul for detention orders to stop the interim boss of PSS Kim Seong-Hoon and Lee Kwang-Woo, head of the PSS bodyguard division, according to its officials.
It marks the fourth and third time that the police have sought arrest orders for Kim and Lee, respectively.
Kim and Lee are accused of obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant for Yoon in January, taking unjust actions of personnel and instructing the subordinates to eliminate the records of telephone conversations between Yoon and the military commanders involved in the declaration of the Martial Law of December 3.
The Prosecutor’s Office previously rejected the police application to seek arrest orders for Kim and Lee. However, a review panel of the Order of the Office of Prosecutors of the Altos Seoul put on the side of the police on March 6, concluding that it was appropriate for the Prosecutor to request arrest orders for both of them.
Police have conducted a complementary investigation to justify the need to stop Kim and Lee, according to the NOI. (Yonhap)
