Blitz Bureau
SOUTH Korean former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and former Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok have been banned from leaving the country as suspects in the alleged insurrection case related to former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched martial law attempt, police said on May 27, reported IANS.
The exit ban was reportedly imposed on Han and Choi around the middle of this month.
The police’s special investigation unit handling the high-profile case called in Han, Choi and former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min on May 26 for questioning for about 10 hours about their alleged involvement in Yoon’s martial law declaration on December 3 last year. Lee was slapped with the exit ban earlier in December.
The former ministers were reportedly grilled about whether they made false statements about the process of receiving martial law-related documents during a Cabinet meeting convened by Yoon on the night of December 3, as police have completed an analysis of surveillance footage of the presidential office’s Cabinet meeting room and hallway.
Han has denied his charges, saying in February that he only realised he had been carrying the martial law declaration document in the back pocket of his suit after the decree was rescinded by an Assembly vote, Yonhap news agency reported.
