Prosecutors' Office 'Cooperation with Yoon's Warrant' Letter Met with Yongsan's Response: "No Authority to Command or Supervise Security Office"

On the morning of the 3rd, as officials from the Corruption Investigation Office arrived at the presidential residence in Hannam-dong, Seoul, to execute an arrest warrant for President Yoon Seok-yeol, supporters were holding an anti-impeachment rally along the roadside near the residence. Photo by Heo Young-han

Jung Jin-seok, Chief of Staff to the President, reportedly responded on the 3rd to a letter from the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Office requesting cooperation in executing an arrest warrant for President Yoon Seok-yeol by stating that he "does not have the authority to command or supervise the Presidential Security Service."

A presidential office official stated, "We understand that Chief Jung sent a reply indicating that he does not have the authority to command or supervise the Presidential Security Service."

Earlier, the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Office sent official letters to Choi Sang-mok, Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, Chief Jung, and Bang Ki-seon, Director of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, requesting them to "direct the Security Service and others to cooperate with the execution procedures."

At 8:04 a.m. that day, the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Office notified the press corps that "the execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon has begun."

The office had requested the court to issue an arrest warrant and a search warrant after President Yoon failed to comply with three summons, and the warrants were issued on the 31st of last month.

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