CIO reviews forcefully bringing Yoon for questioning as Yoon continues to refuse

We start with the latest at the Seoul Detention Center where President Yoon Suk Yeol is being held after a court ordered his formal arrest in the wee hours of this past Sunday.

For more I have our top office correspondent Kim Do-yeon standing by live on site.

Do-yeon welcome.

I hear the president has continued to refrain from cooperating with the investigation led by anti-corruption officials?

Good afternoon Sun-hee as you said, I'm here at Seoul Detention Center where President Yoon has been under detention since last week and has been refusing to be taken to the CIO for questioning.

Just to allow you to get a sense of the scene here to my right are about a hundred or so people in support of President Yoon while to my left are a handful of people condemning Yoon and showing support for the CIO.

Now as we were talking about Yoon was only at the CIO on his first day of detention last Wednesday for questioning and since then has refused additional questions saying there is nothing more to share.

Therefore, the CIO is now looking at its options, primarily two.

Because President Yoon is under detention the CIO can be more forceful when it comes to bringing Yoon in, but there needs to be a careful review of relevant laws before taking this route.

On the other hand, the CIO investigators and prosecutors could themselves come here to the Detention Center.

Of course, Yoon has said that this arrest is not legal yet again and will likely continue to refuse to be questioned and even file for another legality review of this current arrest.

Do-yeon over the course of this past weekend the president went from being a temporary detainee to becoming a criminal suspect facing an indictment and trial on charges of instigating an insurrection.

Do tell us more.

Sun-hee, that's right over the weekend, the CIO was able to get a warrant to keep Yoon in custody until early February.

And that means the CIO and the prosecutors will have him here at the Seoul Detention Center while they question him to investigate the case further.

This means he is now dressed in a detention center-issued uniform with an inmate number assigned to him.

Considering his status he will have a separate cell, and guards will try to isolate him from other inmates.

According to the Justice Ministry he's had a mug shot taken and a body search the same procedure as anyone else who has been arrested.

And while Yoon uses his legal rights to delay the investigation even under this new arrest warrant the CIO is also using its legal options to pressure President Yoon except for Yoon's attorneys he'll not be allowed any visitor until a formal prosecution begins for this case.

The CIO cited the risk of evidence being destroyed as the reason and remember that is the exact reason why the court issued the second "official" arrest warrant.

Of course, Yoon has called this ban just a way to push him around saying if there is reasonable evidence obtained by the CIO that he's now arrested how could he destroy any?

And I believe a search warrant is in effect at the presidential office?

Sun-hee, that's right the search and seizure warrant from last month is still valid and the police actually executed the warrant earlier today.

They're trying to obtain CCTV footage to see who went in and out on the night of the martial law declaration.

In addition, at Yongsan Presidential Office's Presidential Security Service office the servers for these CCTV recordings are there so the investigators could be looking into those.

That's all for now, back to you Sun-hee.

All right Do-yeon for you for the latest with regard to the president's arrest and investigation.