South Korea’s Yoon sentenced to 5 years in prison over obstruction of justice

Now ousted from power, he faces multiple trials for actions taken during that debacle and in the turmoil that followed.

Among them are charges he committed obstruction of justice by allegedly excluding cabinet members from a martial law

planning meeting as well as blocking investigators from detaining him.

The case mainly centres on accusations that Yoon instructed presidential security personnel to block investigators from entering his residential compound to execute an arrest warrant in January last year.

The first attempt failed after authorities encountered buses parked to block the entrance. They later succeeded in entering the compound and bringing Yoon in for questioning.

The sentencing comes days after prosecutors in a separate case demanded Yoon be sentenced to death

for his role as the “ringleader of an insurrection” in orchestrating the imposition of martial law.