Seoul: Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-suk's team on Friday questioned Education Minister Lee Ju-ho and Park Jong-joon, former head of the Presidential Security Service (PSS), in connection with its probe into former President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law declaration. Lee and Park appeared at Cho's office within the Seoul High Prosecutors Office in southern Seoul on Friday afternoon.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Cho's team reportedly questioned Lee about the circumstances before and after Yoon convened an emergency Cabinet meeting on the night of December 3 last year prior to the martial law imposition. Notably, Lee did not attend the Cabinet meeting because he was not given prior notice.
The special counsel's office has been summoning all of Yoon's Cabinet ministers, including former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, since earlier this week for similar questioning. In addition to the questioning of Lee, the team also questioned Park as part of its investigation into allegations that Yoon ordered the PSS to block investigators from executing a warrant to detain him in early January.