Special counsel raids prosecution over ex-chief's alleged role in Yoon's failed martial law
Published: 23 Apr. 2026, 18:13
![Former Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung arrives at a special counsel team's office in southern Seoul to undergo questioning as a suspect in this file photo taken Sept. 30, 2025. [YONHAP]](https://koreaseafood.online/data/photo/2026/04/23/8095bad7-0a4c-41c9-a907-7febfed11ad7.jpg)
Former Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung arrives at a special counsel team's office in southern Seoul to undergo questioning as a suspect in this file photo taken Sept. 30, 2025. [YONHAP]
A special counsel team raided the top prosecutor's office on Thursday over former Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung's alleged involvement in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed martial law bid in 2024.
The team tasked with investigating uncovered allegations surrounding Yoon and his short-lived decree, sent investigators to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul to carry out the search and seizure.
Shim is suspected to have played a key role in the failed martial law attempt, which was ruled by a district court as an insurrection, by reviewing the possible dispatch of public prosecutors to a joint martial law investigation headquarters on Dec. 3, 2024, when Yoon declared martial law.
Shim allegedly held three phone calls with then-Justice Minister Park Sung-jae at the time, raising suspicions that Park may have instructed him to send prosecutors to the martial law organ.
The special counsel team is also investigating Shim over his decision not to appeal a court decision in March of last year that led to Yoon's release from custody.
Prosecutors are said to have sought to appeal the court decision at that time, but Shim had reportedly struck down such a move.
Yonhap
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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