{"id":7982,"date":"2025-01-18T20:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/south-korean-court-extends-president-yoons-detention\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:01:01","slug":"south-korean-court-extends-president-yoons-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/south-korean-court-extends-president-yoons-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean court extends President Yoon\u2019s detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A South Korean court granted on Sunday an extension of President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s detention, saying there was \u201cconcern\u201d that Yoon could \u201cdestroy evidence\u201d in a criminal probe related to his short-lived declaration of martial law in early December.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Last Wednesday, Yoon became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested. South Korean investigators probing Yoon for alleged insurrection asked a Seoul court on Friday to extend his detention after he refused to be questioned.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The Seoul Western District Court said it approved the detention warrant requested by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO).    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The reason for the approval was \u201cconcern that the suspect may destroy evidence,\u201d the court said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Under the new warrant, Yoon can be detained for up to 20 days.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            He is being held at the Seoul Detention Center.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            So far, Yoon has stonewalled efforts by the CIO to interrogate him, refusing to attend questioning. It was unclear if Yoon will cooperate with investigators during his extended detention.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean court granted on Sunday an extension of President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s detention, saying there was \u201cconcern\u201d that Yoon could \u201cdestroy evidence\u201d in a criminal probe related to his short-lived declaration of martial law in early December. Last Wednesday, Yoon became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested. South Korean investigators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}