Overview

• Court issues warrant to forcibly question Yoon, enabling the special counsel team to bring him from Uiwang Detention Center for interrogation over alleged meddling in the 2022 parliamentary by-elections.
• Yoon, detained since July 10 on charges related to his failed December martial law decree, defied two summonses from special counsel Min Joong-ki’s office without explanation, prompting the detention warrant request.
• Prosecutors are probing allegations that Yoon and former first lady Kim Keon-hee received free opinion polls from broker Myung Tae-kyun in return for influencing candidate nominations and that Yoon made false statements about stock-manipulation claims.
• Investigative actions have expanded this week with a second raid on New Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok’s office and the questioning of power broker Myung Tae-kyun as a suspect in the alleged nomination scheme.
• The ruling Democratic Party formed a special committee to oversee and back three overlapping special counsel investigations into Yoon’s martial law bid, his wife’s alleged corruption and a Marine’s death.