Yidaehwan Director General of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), along with CIO investigators, enters the presidential residence checkpoint in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, at around 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 to execute an arrest warrant for President Yoon Seok-yeol, but the 55th Security Battalion of the Capital Defense Command surrounds and obstructs the investigators. /Courtesy of News1

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials announced on the 6th that it has transferred the authority to execute an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk-yeol to the police on the 5th.

A representative from the Joint Investigation Headquarters, composed of the police National Investigation Headquarters Special Investigation Team, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, and the Ministry of National Defense Investigation Headquarters, noted, “The Corruption Investigation Office sent an official document delegating the execution of the arrest warrant to the police National Investigation Headquarters the previous day.”

Under criminal law, the direct investigative authority for treason lies with the police. President Yoon’s side has claimed, “The Corruption Investigation Office has no authority to investigate treason,” and argued that “the arrest warrant itself is illegal and void.”