According to local reports, South Korean authorities have placed travel bans on two former acting presidents as part of an investigation into alleged insurrection related to Yoon Suk-yeol’s alleged campaign to become a martial law leader last year.
Han Duck-soo and Choi Sang-mok, both of whom were being investigated as suspects in the insurrection case, were told by police to avoid traveling abroad in mid-May, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Yoon, who presided over the country for three years, claimed that anti-state and North Korean forces had hacked into the government and ordered troops to the capital’s streets in December 2024.
Parliament revoked the declaration hours later, leading to a unprecedented constitutional crisis in which Han and Choi served as acting presidents.
A special police unit interrogated the former acting presidents on Monday about the part they had played in Yoon’s short-lived martial law.
There have been questions about whether they had resisted the move as they had claimed since his impeachment.
Elections in June
Yoon was formally removed from office last month after a judge at South Korea’s Constitutional Court determined that he had overstepped his authority by deploying troops in the capital.
Senior military and police officers testified that rival politicians were given orders to detain them.
The former president is currently facing insurrection-related charges, which could lead to the death penalty or life in prison.
He would become the third South Korean leader to be found guilty of insurrection following two military leaders’ convictions in connection with a coup in 1979.
Next week will see the election of Yoon’s successor, ending months of political unrest since the declaration of martial law.
Source: Aljazeera
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