WNAM REPORT: The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) had ordered him to appear for further questioning at 10 a.m. after he failed to appear the previous day, citing health reasons.
“The president will not appear at the CIO today,” Seok Dong-hyeon, Yoon’s lawyer and longtime friend, told Yonhap News Agency. “He thoroughly stated his basic position during the CIO’s questioning the first day and doesn’t see any reason or need to respond to a question-and-answer type of interrogation.”
Yoon has been held at a detention center since Wednesday night after investigators apprehended him at his residence and brought him to the CIO office in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, to undergo over 10 hours of questioning.
Yoon filed a request with the Seoul Central District Court to review the legality of his detention, but the court dismissed the challenge Thursday night, keeping him in custody.
The CIO is expected to file for a warrant to formally arrest Yoon before a 48-hour deadline expires Friday night.
As previously stated, investigators detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence on Wednesday in their second attempt to take him into custody for questioning over his short-lived imposition of martial law.
