South Korea's second comprehensive special investigation team on August 12 indicted former President Yoon Suk-yeol and former National Security Office chief Shin Won-sik, accusing them of spreading information that sought to justify the '12·3' emergency martial law declaration. The indictment, reported by Yonhap News Agency, brings the total number of criminal proceedings against Yoon to nine. The special investigation team said Yoon allegedly acted immediately after announcing emergency martial law on December 3, directing the National Security Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey to the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and the European Union that 'the emergency martial law was justified.' The former president is now suspected of abuse of authority that obstructs the exercise of rights — specifically the charge of abusing his position to order civil servants to perform work that falls outside their official duties. The prosecution team filed the case on the same day that Yonhap reported the development, making it the latest in a series of criminal cases against the former president.
Prosecutors in South Korea indicted former President Yoon Suk-yeol and Shin Won-sik, his former national security office chief, on August 12 over their alleged role in spreading messages that framed the December 3 emergency martial law declaration as justified.
Yonhap News Agency reported the indictment, which raises the number of criminal cases pending against Yoon to nine. The prosecution's second comprehensive special investigation team said Yoon is suspected of instructing the National Security Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, immediately after the martial law decree, to inform the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and the European Union that 'the emergency martial law is justified.'
The alleged conduct amounts to abuse of authority that interferes with the exercise of rights — specifically, ordering public officials to carry out tasks outside their mandated duties.
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