Police Summon Former Capital Defense Commander Over Alleged Perjury in Yoon Impeachment Trial

Police have summoned former Capital Defense Command commander Lee Jin-woo, who is accused of committing perjury by testifying that he did not receive orders to block the National Assembly from voting to lift martial law.
The Special Investigation Headquarters for Cases Transferred from the Three Independent Counsel Probes at the National Police Agency summoned Lee on the morning of the 13th as a suspect on perjury charges and is questioning him.
Lee is suspected of giving false testimony in February last year, when he appeared as a witness at the fifth hearing in the Constitutional Court’s impeachment trial of former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
At the time, when Yoon’s legal team asked him whether he had ever received instructions from the defense minister or the president, in the event troops were deployed to the National Assembly, to block lawmakers from voting to lift martial law, he answered, "No."
Previously, the civic group Citizens' Action for Judicial Justice (CAJJ) filed a complaint with prosecutors, alleging that Lee and others gave false testimony in Yoon’s impeachment trial that contradicted objective facts supported by multiple pieces of physical evidence.
welcome@fnnews.com Jang Yu-ha Reporter