South Korea Starts Investigation Of Alleged Corruption Former President Yoon Suk Yeol

South Korea's Presidential Office has asked political parties to propose the names of candidates for special prosecutors who will lead a massive investigation into former President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The investigation includes efforts to fail Yoon to impose a military emergency, as well as allegations of corruption involving his wife, Kim Keon Hee, the South Korean news agency, Yonhap said.

The move came after the South Korean National Assembly approved three specific draft laws last week, which paved the way for an investigation into Yoon and former first lady.

Reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, the elected president Lee Jae-myung is required to appoint a special prosecutor within three days of receiving the names of candidates from political parties.

Once appointed, each prosecutor will have 20 days to prepare for an initial investigation, and a full examination is scheduled to begin early next month.

The Democratic Party currently in power has proposed three names of prosecutors.

The investigation is expected to involve nearly 600 personnel, including 120 prosecutors, and can be extended to 170 days if needed.

Former President Yoon, who was dismissed from office after the Constitutional Court upheld impeachment in March, faces several serious charges.

One of them is ordering the Presidential Security Service to obstruct the implementation of a detention warrant last January, in the context of the military emergency efforts he initiated.

Yoon was also accused of intervening in an investigation into the death of Marine Corporal Chae Su-geun in July 2023. Chae drowned while carrying out a flood rescue mission, and reports said that buoy vests were not shared in the operation.

Yoon denied all the accusations leveled at him.

He also did not comply with a summons for questioning from the police on Thursday, and declined to attend for the second time in a military emergency case being investigated.