Overview

• On July 6, the special counsel team filed an arrest warrant request at the Seoul Central District Court, seeking Yoon’s detention over his December 2024 martial law decree.
• The warrant lists charges of abuse of authority, falsification of official documents and obstruction of official duties while treason and foreign aggression allegations remain under investigation.
• Prosecutors cited evidence that Yoon ordered retroactive martial law proclamations, directed deletion of secure Presidential Security Service phone records and blocked a January arrest warrant execution.
• He faced a second 14.5-hour interrogation on July 5, where prosecutors explored his actions during the martial law declaration and attempts to evade legal scrutiny.
• His legal team denounced the warrant request as excessive and lacking objective evidence and plans to challenge it at the detention hearing.