The National Office of Investigation is reviewing whether to apply for detention warrants against two senior officials from the Presidential Security Service accused of hampering law enforcement efforts to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.
A special police task force charged with investigating President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law arrived at the presidential compound on Thursday to secure additional information regarding the incident.
Woo Jong-soo, the 55-year-old chief of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, was tapped by President Yoon Suk Yeol as the new head of the National Office of Investigation Monday.
The announcement came a month after the previous nominee Chung Sun-sin, a former prosecutor, stepped down after it was revealed that his son bullied a classmate in high school.
The government must improve the screening system so as not to damage the fairness and common sense the president enthusiastically championed.
The newly appointed chief of the National Office of Investigation (NOI) declined to take up the position a day before the start date after a case against his son years earlier came to light.
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