Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
But before dawn on Wednesday, hundreds of police officers and investigators from the Corruption Investigation Office again surrounded the residence, some scaling perimeter walls and hiking up back trails to reach the main building.
After a standoff of about five hours, authorities announced Yoon had been arrested and the impeached leader released a pre-recorded video message.
“I decided to respond to the Corruption Investigation Office,” Yoon said in the message, adding that he did not accept the legality of the investigation but was complying “to prevent any unfortunate bloodshed”.
Yoon left his residence in a convoy and was taken to the offices of the Corruption Investigation Office.
Investigators began questioning Yoon shortly after his arrest but they said he had exercised “his right to remain silent”.
He refused to be filmed during questioning, a CIO official told reporters, adding Yoon would spend the night at a detention centre.
In a later Facebook post that Yoon said he wrote while holed up in his residence, he repeated election fraud claims and spoke of “hostile” nations attacking the country, alluding to North Korea.
AFP reporters earlier witnessed brief scuffles at the gate of the residence, where Yoon’s die-hard supporters had been camped out to protect him, as authorities first moved on the compound.
His supporters were heard chanting “illegal warrant!” while waving glow sticks and South Korean and American flags. Some lay on the ground outside the residential compound’s main gate.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
