Yoon's defense team to seek injunction against detention warrant for impeached president

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's legal defense team plans to seek an injunction to suspend a detention warrant issued against the impeached president over his failed martial law bid, one of his lawyers said Tuesday, while criticizing the warrant as "illegal," Report informs via Yonhap.

Earlier in the day, the Seoul Western District Court approved a request from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) to issue the warrant for Yoon on charges of masterminding the botched Dec. 3 martial law declaration, orchestrating the insurrection and abusing power, according to the CIO.

The court also approved a warrant to search Yoon's presidential residence in Seoul's Yongsan in connection with the investigation.

Yun Gap-geun, one of Yoon's legal representatives, said the arrest and search warrants issued upon request by the CIO are "illegal and invalid" because the CIO has "no investigative rights" on charges of insurrection.