SEOUL, November 12 (AJP) - Cho Tae-yong, a former head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS), was arrested on charges of allegedly being involved in disgraced ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law debacle last year.
The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for him, citing concerns he could destroy or tamper with evidence.
Cho is accused of failing to notify the National Assembly of Yoon's plan to declare martial law, despite being aware of it.
Cho faces perjury charges for testifying to the National Assembly and Constitutional Court that he had not seen related documents before the Dec. 3 debacle. But CCTV footage from an emergency meeting with key officials at the presidential office that day showed him pocketing what appeared to be documents related to the debacle.
Earlier arrest warrants for former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and former Justice Minister Park Sung-jae were denied, but Cho's arrest is expected to give independent investigators probing Yoon's case new momentum.
* This article, published by Aju Business Daily, was translated by AI and edited by AJP.
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