CIO Investigators Play Hide and Seek with Impeached President Yoon
The CIO is making themselves look ridiculous at this point. Yoon has told them repeatedly that he is exercising his right to remain silent and yet they are playing this hide and seek game with him:
Oh Dong-woon, chief of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, speaks to reporters as he arrives for work at the office in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, on Jan. 22, 2025. (Yonhap)
Investigators failed Wednesday at their third attempt to forcibly bring in President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over his botched martial law bid. (……)
Prosecutors and investigators with the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) visited the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, south of Seoul, to question Yoon over his Dec. 3 declaration of martial law, but the president refused all forms of interrogation, including on-site.
“We plan to discuss and decide the next steps in the questioning and procedures,” the CIO said in a notice to the press.
The investigators withdrew after five hours while Yoon met with his legal team.
So basically when the CIO shows up Yoon has meetings with his lawyers or he is attending his impeachment trial or going to the hospital:
Investigators went to the detention center on Monday and Tuesday to forcibly bring him in but withdrew both times after Yoon’s side refused to cooperate.
Under human rights protection regulations, investigators cannot question a suspect without his or her consent after 9 p.m.
Yoon returned to the detention center past that time on Tuesday after attending his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court and stopping at a military hospital to get a health exam.
“It kind of turned out like a game of hide-and-seek,” Oh said when asked if he was aware of Yoon’s plans to visit the hospital. “(The investigators) waited at the detention center because it didn’t seem right from the perspective of human rights to go looking for him at the hospital.”
So why is the CIO continuing to play this hide and seek game with someone exercising their right to remain silent?
Oh Dong Won was an Yoon appointee, an anti-corruption department that was started by Moon Jae-in in 2020. I said this before. Basically, when he took over, Yoon gutted the department, and appointed Oh – because Oh was too incompetent enough to keep an eye on everything. Yoon wanted someone who didn’t know what he was doing, so that he can’t go after Yoon when he starts messing with South Korea. Everyone in Korea thinks CIO is useless due to their incompetence, not just the alt-right wing group in the ROKDrop.
This is all about optics and manipulating public opinion.
Yoon is harmless. He could have been left alone, powerless in his residence.
But he has to be shown to be a criminal… locked up and refusing to cooperate… even though there has been no legal decision yet if he even comitted a crime.
That treatment is a clue that the opposition party is not fully confident they will be able to pull of this coup.
Part of that is because if Yoon can communicate with the people in a dignified way, he may be able build a convincing case for what he did.
The over-action of the left is playing into this.
Impeachment court is to reach decision on whether to fire the president or not. The CIO investigation is to investigate a criminal charge for abuse of power and breaking of the constitutional law, punishable up to death (for treason and insurrection). You don’t even know how the Korean law works, yet you’re making these ignorant comments.
Does Yoon need to be locked up and treated as a criminal while the CIO investigates?
Once again, “investigation” is the action that is happening.
This is all optics to make Yoon look guilty to the public even though there are currently only investigations and no official ruling if a crime was even committed.
This is the action of an authoritarian administration and not a system that follows lawful procedure… especially when there are calls for a quick death penalty.
The reality is that Yoon did something close to what the left wants to do and they are angry about it.
He was locked up due to his non-cooperation, refusing to answer questions, and refusing to attend questioning periods. He was given ample chances to cooperate with the investigation while still free living in his home. If he had attended the questionings, he would not have been arrested and in jail while they carried out the investigation. The choice was his. The Yoon supporters deliberately miss this critical fact.
They don’t have to do anything much to prove him guilty. We all saw him on TV, night of Dec 3, announcing a suspension of democracy. The crime was committed. His right and left men are all testifying, that he gave orders to arrest not just the opposition, but also people (who were not even opposition politicians) whom Yoon’s wife didn’t like for some reason. What makes you think that the CIO has to do much to convict him? He pretty much convincted himself.
Check that, the “Koreans” are angry about it. The “left” isn’t even the government. They’re not the ones making the decisions nor the ones investigating Yoon. They’re not the government. Because the DPK party is not the ruling party. The government is still Yoon’s PPP party. The CIO – a non partisan institution, is headed by a Yoon appointee. The DPK party are the people that is investigation Yoon. Five out of the eight Constitutional judges are Yoon appointees. Yoon also has the advantage here as well. The Constitutional court is supposed to be non-partisan. The acting President is also the Finance Minister – another Yoon appointee. They’re the ones making all the decisions because they are supposed to be separate institutions, the DPK party have no power other than to protest and pressure the current system to do something which they have. Do you know how Democratic systems are even set up?
You don’t understand, because you don’t know anything about the Korean government. You just blame everything on the Commies.
You sound just like some bar owner in Itaewon. You never read any books. You’re bitter because you lost money during Covid restrictions. That’s over now, why don’t you move on now? Just think, you could have invested on Trump bitcoins couple of days ago, and you would have lost millions when he pumped up the coins for a day and cashed out, earning $7 billion in one day. You could have been that dummy out of the thousands who lost their shirts when their trusted man scammed them. You should count your blessings.
Yoon could have been questioned in his residence. The big show of “bringing him in for questioning” was just a show.
Bonus: He doesn’t have to answer any questions.
You know that CIO did give him a choice to be interviewed at his residence, right? He slammed the door on them, and barricaded himself behind his hired guards. It was his choice.