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Legal Prosecutors' Reform Committee under the Ministry of Justice has issued recommendations that focus on the abolition of the prosecutor's authority. Instead, the Attorney General asked to conduct the investigation, but there are concerns that the power will be too concentrated on the Attorney General who will have not only human resources, but also the right to conduct investigations.

Reporter Bae Joon-woo reports.

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The core of the recommendations issued by the Attorney General's Reform Committee is to reduce the power of the Attorney General.

First of all, it is to abolish the general command and supervision of the prosecutor's office on first-line prosecutors prescribed by the Public Prosecutors' Office Act.

Instead, the Minister of Justice directs the High Commissioner for Justice to take over the investigation.

However, in order to prevent the Minister of Justice from being influenced by politics, the prosecution was prohibited.

In relation to the prosecutors' affairs, the Attorney General recommended that the Attorney General's Law be revised so that the Attorney General's opinion would be heard.

The Minister of Justice listens to the opinion of the Attorney General's Committee on behalf of the President, and the Attorney General is to give written opinions to the Attorney General's Committee.

In addition, a high-ranking prosecutor recommended changing the practice of being appointed as the Attorney General to appoint non-prosecutors, such as judges, lawyers, and women.

In this regard, the committee said that it would be possible to disperse the concentrated power to the Attorney General and to improve various abolitions through democratic control over the president and the prosecution organization.

But there were also voices of concern that it could undermine the prosecution's independence and political neutrality.

It is pointed out that there is room for the Minister of Justice's arbitrary judgment to be involved in the investigation.

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office did not take an official position, but inside the prosecutor's office, critics have even criticized that the prosecutor-in-chief is made into an'honorary position.