Special counsel team raids home of ex-PM Hwang
Former Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn appears at the Seoul Southern District Court to attend a hearing for a trial on a 2019 National Assembly physical altercation case, Sept. 15. Yonhap
A special counsel team attempted to raid the home of former Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Monday over suspicions of inciting an insurrection following former President Yoon Suk Yeol's bid to impose martial law in December.
The team of special counsel Cho Eun-suk arrived at Hwang's home to execute a search and seizure warrant but the door was locked and investigators waited outside to be let in.
"(The raid) has to do with a case filed with the police regarding insurrection incitement charges related to former Prime Minister Hwang's actions on the day martial law was imposed," assistant special counsel Park Ji-young said during a press briefing.
"We hope he will cooperate over a court-issued warrant, as he is a jurist who previously served as the minister of justice," she added.
The former prime minister, who served under former President Park Geun-hye, was reported to the police in December by an online news outlet over Facebook posts he made on the day Yoon declared martial law on Dec. 3.
In the posts, he called for using the emergency decree to "eradicate" pro-North Korea forces and those involved in "electoral fraud."
He also called for arresting National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik and then People Power Party leader Han Dong-hoon.