Overview

• The Seoul Central District Court said key facts remain legally disputable and found no clear risk of flight or evidence destruction to justify pretrial detention.
• Special counsel Cho Eun-suk sought Han Duck-soo’s arrest on allegations including abetting leaders of insurrection, falsifying and destroying public documents, perjury, and violating the presidential archives law.
• Investigators filed a 362-page submission after a roughly three-and-a-half-hour hearing, but the court ruled the claimed tampering concerns did not exceed a defendant’s right to defense.
• Han attended the hearing, reportedly denied most allegations except matters tied to perjury, and returned home from the Seoul Detention Center following the ruling.
• Former ministers Kim Yong-hyun and Lee Sang-min remain in custody in the same probe, and former President Yoon is detained at the Seoul Detention Center, according to The Korea Herald.