"If Arrested, Transferred to Detention Cell"... Indications of Transfer Preparation in Yoon's Indictment

Yoon Suk-yeol's 101-Page Indictment Obtained
"Request to Prepare for Transfer After Checking Detention Cells"

According to the indictment of President Yoon obtained by Asia Economy on the 3rd through the office of Park Beom-gye, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, Gu In-hoe, head of the Investigation Coordination Division of the Republic of Korea Army Counterintelligence Command, immediately after the declaration of martial law, instructed Kim, the director of planning at the Ministry of National Defense Investigation Headquarters, to request support from 100 investigators of the Ministry of National Defense Investigation Headquarters and to check the status of detention cells in the metropolitan area.

From around 11:05 PM to 11:34 PM on the day martial law was declared, Kim, who received the instructions sequentially, ordered key officials within the Ministry of National Defense Investigation Headquarters investigation team, including the investigation chief, through the situation room chief of the investigation team, to "immediately issue an emergency assembly order to affiliated investigators, wear black uniforms, prepare military police and investigator patches, and wait in the office," according to the prosecution.

Then, around 11:42 PM, Gu, the head of the Counterintelligence Command Investigation Coordination Division, again requested Kim to ascertain the status of detention cells in the metropolitan area. In response, Kim instructed the planning section chief of the planning department to check and report on the status of detention cells at the Capital Defense Command. The prosecution found that there were six detention cells and three detainees.

Subsequently, around 11:50 PM, Kim received a request from Gu to prepare transfer measures for the detainees and informed the planning section chief of this fact. He also called the commander of the Capital Defense Command Police Unit to request preparation for the transfer of detainees. According to the prosecution's investigation, Kim said, "The three detainees held in the detention cells may need to be transferred to prison," and "If arrests continue one after another, the detention cells at the Capital Defense Command can be used as single-occupancy rooms."