However, the Office of High-Level Corruption Investigation has not confirmed the validity period of the warrant.
Investigators were unable to execute the original arrest warrant against Yoon.
Police were stopped by a human chain of hundreds of presidential security agents and military guards outside his residence last week, and early Tuesday police said they remained determined to take him away.
Yoon’s lawyers filed an injunction with a Seoul court seeking to invalidate the arrest warrant, but the court rejected the request on Sunday, court officials said on Tuesday.
Seok Dong-hyun, a lawyer who is a close friend of Yoon and is in frequent contact with the president, said that Yoon is “virtually imprisoned in his home.”
Another anonymous source told Reuters that Yun receives few clients other than lawyers but is “living well.”
Last week, his office filed charges against three television stations and a YouTuber for illegally filming areas designated as military sensitive facilities.
Security authorities blocked off the street leading to the home with buses and installed barbed wire.
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