Senior presidential security official again snubs police request for questioning

Senior Presidential Security Official Again Snubs Police Request For Questioning

The photo shows the National Office of Investigation headquarters in Seoul, Jan. 14. Yonhap

The picture exhibits the Nationwide Workplace of Investigation headquarters in Seoul, Jan. 14. Yonhap

A senior official on the Presidential Safety Service (PSS) once more defied a police request to seem for questioning Tuesday over allegations he blocked investigators‘ try to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Kim Shin, the senior PSS official who is called one of many loyalists for Yoon, failed to seem for questioning as of 10 a.m. Tuesday, in line with the Nationwide Workplace of Investigation.

Police plan to ship one other summons to Kim.

Police have booked 5 senior officers of the PSS, together with Kim, on fees of particular obstruction of public responsibility over their function in blocking Corruption Investigation Workplace for Excessive-ranking Officers (CIO) from executing a warrant to detain Yoon earlier this month.

An try to detain Yoon over his botched martial regulation bid was known as off on Jan. 3 because of a tense standoff between investigators and members of the PSS. (Yonhap)

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