Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit suspends execution of "Yoon's arrest warrant"..."I blocked 200 people".

[Anchor]
The Airborne Division is executing an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol this morning.Ma was ultimately canceled. There are reporters from the legal team at the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit. Youngsoo Kim and reporter Kim Chul-hee, please pass it on.

[Reporter]
It's in the high-ranking government official's criminal investigation office. I'd like to share with you the news regarding the arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol. First, reporter Kim Chul-hee, please explain the situation in which the execution of the warrant was canceled.

[Reporter]
The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit announced that it will suspend the execution of the arrest warrant at around 1:30 p.m. after judging that "the safety of the field personnel is concerned" after a confrontation with the security service at the official residence in Hannam-dong, Seoul. He also said, "I deeply regret the attitude of the suspect who did not comply with the procedures under the law." This means that the president did not cooperate with the execution of the warrant. "Future measures will be decided after review," it said. Today, about 30 people from the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and 120 from the Special Police Corps were deployed to execute the arrest warrant at Hannam-dong's official residence. More than 2,700 experienced people were also mobilized to maintain order. We tried to execute it early in the morning, but it ended up in failure.

[Reporter]
After the execution of the arrest warrant failed, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit held a back briefing. The official explained in detail the execution process of the arrest warrant. First of all, if you listen to the explanation, it was said that it approached up to 200m in the official residence. However, more than ten cars were blocked there by mobilizing buses and cars. He explained that more than 200 people, including bodyguards and soldiers, wrapped their arms in layers and blocked them. At that time, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and the Special Police Corps were about 100 people, but they explained that the number was absolutely insufficient. From there, only three prosecutors moved to the front of the official residence.

I met with the lawyer there, and the lawyer seems to be talking about lawyer Yoon Gap-geun and former chairman of the Korea Communications Commission Kim Hong-il. He said he would execute the warrant, but the defense repeated his previous claims, such as that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit had no investigative power. The lawyers also said they would issue a senior appointment as soon as possible and agreed to discuss the process. In the field, it is difficult to execute the arrest warrant realistically from the perspective of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, so it is back.

Overall, it seems that there were about three layers of cordon to get to the official residence. The first bus was blocking it. There were about 50 employees of the security service there, and the deputy chief of the security service came out and mentioned that he would protect them in accordance with the Presidential Security Act. Also, military personnel were blocked everywhere, and the confrontation continued to drag on.

There were cases where you had to go up the mountain path because buses and things like that were blocking it. As a result, the execution of the arrest warrant was canceled after being blocked at the last gate and only three prosecutors met with lawyers. As the attempt to execute the arrest warrant fell through, the Joint Investigation Headquarters booked the head of the security and the deputy head of the department on charges of obstructing the execution of special public affairs. As the police said earlier, military units were deployed and military personnel interfered with the execution of arrest warrants.

[Reporter]
That's right. As you said on the spot, there were a total of three cordons, and two of them broke through. It revealed that there were big and small physical fights during the breakthrough process. The police special team explained that there was a physical fight in the process of breaking through the cordon of the security service. In particular, they also confronted military personnel, and the police identified them as Army water radiation personnel. Army radiation forces obstructed the execution of the arrest warrant, the bank confirmed. At the same time, he said he would consider whether to book the soldiers who interfered with the execution. However, it has been found that no one has been arrested at the scene yet.

[Reporter]
In the process of attempting to execute an arrest warrant today, there was another suspicion that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit was not active in executing the arrest warrant. The police tried to arrest the security officer at the scene, but the airlift department held him back. As the security service blocked the execution of the arrest warrant, he/she was trying to arrest him/her on charges of obstructing the execution of special public affairs, but he/she claims that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit stopped him/her. As I told you earlier, I decided to appoint the head of the security and the deputy head as suspects and demand their attendance. Therefore, instead of arresting at the scene, the disagreement seems to have ended with a reservation and a request for attendance. Accepting this claim, the police seem to have been willing to execute the warrant today somehow, and on the contrary, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit took a cautious approach because there could be a physical conflict.

However, since it was a scenario where it was so expected that the security service would block it, such a response and the atmosphere at the scene could be controversial. We've been delivering related news all day since early this morning, so let's summarize what happened by time zone.

[Reporter]
First of all, a vehicle from the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit was spotted leaving this place at around 6:14. Before that, the image of loading various items into the trunk was captured earlier. About an hour later, the screen of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit's vehicle arriving at the official residence was also confirmed. It seems that the investigators got off at around 07:53 and started consulting with the security service. Just after 8 a.m., investigators were even confirmed to enter the official residence. It was at this point that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit announced the execution of the arrest warrant. At that time, it was around 8:03 p.m. The announcement was made that the execution of the arrest warrant will begin. After that, it passed through the first cordon built with buses and others and entered the second cordon at around 9:50 p.m. Since then, Cho Dong-bon, who entered in front of the official residence, has presented an arrest warrant to the head of the security service and asked for cooperation, but the head of the security service seems to have expressed his disapproval of the search due to the security law's security zone. In the end, he left Hannam-dong in 7 1/2 hours from the departure of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and 5 1/2 hours from the start of execution.

[Reporter]
If the arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol had been executed today, President Yoon Suk Yeol would have come to the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit today for investigation and tonight at the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang. In the case of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, a separate investigation room was set up on the third floor of the building in the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit building. In the investigation room, Chief Prosecutor Lee Dae-hwan and Chief Prosecutor Cha Jung-hyun were planning to enter the investigation. However, as the execution of the arrest warrant failed, we reviewed the following once again. The 200-page questionnaire has already been prepared. That's why the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit will have to wait and see what kind of countermeasures the joint investigation headquarters will come up with in the future. So far, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit has delivered it to you. Sangam-dong studio, please come out.