S. Korean ex-President arrested over evidence tampering fears

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Former President Yoon Suk Yeol has been re-arrested over concerns of evidence tampering amid fresh disturbing allegations.

Choi Soo-hyung explains.

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested again.

It has been 124 days, or about four months, since the court canceled his previous arrest on March 8.

On Wednesday, after a 6-hour 40-minute hearing and more than 5 hours of review, a court decided to issue an arrest warrant on fears that he could destroy evidence.

The special counsel team said Yoon ordered the deletion of secret phone records and made a fake martial law statement, which he later threw away.

It seems that the court agreed this could be considered evidence tampering.

Last Sunday, the counsel team formally accused Yoon of five major charges.

Those charges are that on December 3 last year, Yoon held a partial cabinet meeting to simulate approval for martial law, that he wrote a false martial law statement and later destroyed it that he spread false information to foreign media.

that he ordered the deletion of secure phone records and that he used the presidential security service to stop the police from arresting him.

The special counsel team is now allowed to hold Yoon in custody for up to 20 days for investigation.

Yoon is being held at Seoul Detention Center.

All his presidential-level security has been revoked.

He will undergo the same procedures as regular inmates and will be placed in a solidarity cell.

There is no air conditioning, and electric fans are restricted to limited hours.

The investigation now shifts focus on foreign aggression crime charges.

Yoon is accused of trying to provoke North Korea by sending a drone to Pyongyang, to justify declaring martial law.

Unconfirmed testimony from military sources claim the president gave a direct order to send a drone into North Korea.

However, due to military secrets laws, specific details have not yet been revealed.

Choi Soo-hyung, Arirang News.