S. Korea's special counsel indicts ex PM Han on charges of abetting insurrection

South Korea's special counsel indicted former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on charges of abetting insurrection of the former ousted President Yoon Suk-yeol, the special counsel team said Friday.

Han was indicted without a physical detention on charges of abetting the insurrection ringleader, perjury, falsifying and later destroying official documents, and others, said the team of independent counsel Cho Eun-suk, leading an investigation into Yoon's short-lived martial law imposition last December.

The indictment came after a Seoul court rejected a warrant to detain Han on Wednesday.

Han is suspected of conniving at Yoon's insurrection by proposing to hold a cabinet meeting before the martial law declaration for its legitimacy, drawing up and scrapping a revised proclamation, and lying at the constitutional court and the parliament.