Identity, election investigation... Analysis of the issues and problems of the 'Inspection and Perfection' bill

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If this bill is passed, it will have a significant impact on our lives as the criminal justice system that has been around for 70 years will change.

So, let's take a look at which parts of the bill were the issues and what were pointed out as problems. 

This content, reporter Park Chan-geun, will be explained in detail. 

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First, when the prosecution supplements and investigates a case handed over by the police, it is a part that allows direct investigation within the scope of the same crime facts. 

Although the intention is to prevent the investigation of separate cases, there have been concerns that if this happens, we will have to rely only on supplementary police investigations even if we find accomplices or additional charges. 

There was also concern that the accomplice might be escaping or destroying evidence while the case went back and forth between the police and prosecutors. 

Another issue is that the prosecutor who initiated the investigation was not allowed to prosecute. 

This clause reflects the concern that if the investigative prosecutor even prosecutes, the prosecution may be unreasonably biased in accordance with the confirmation bias. 

However, an objection has been raised that the investigation cannot be considered in isolation because it is a fact-checking procedure that presupposes prosecution. 

Another issue was the provision of changing 'Corruption' and 'Economic Crimes' to 'Medium' while stipulating the scope of the prosecution's direct investigation. 

If you look at the phrase behind this, important crimes prescribed by the Presidential Decree are like this, but if it is 'etc', other crimes other than the two crimes can be directly included in the investigation target at the president's discretion. It is possible, but in the end, in the amendment to the plenary session, it was changed back to 'etc.'. 

Ahead of the branch election in June, an exception was made so that the prosecution could directly investigate by the end of this year, but the lawmakers who will hold the general election two years later There are also criticisms of being out of the investigation target. 

(CG: Sangsoo Ryu)

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Now, let's take a closer look at the content of the bill in the National Assembly plenary session together with reporter Chan-geun Park from the Social Affairs Department and reporter Han-seok Lee from the Department of Political Affairs, who just discussed the issue of the bill.

[Reporter Lee Han-seok: This is the core issue of the oversight bill.

To what extent will the prosecution's supplementary investigation be allowed?

Prosecutors are stipulating that investigations should be carried out within the same scope of crime as in the case of police transfer, but the amendment can be investigated within the limits of the same.

What this means is that this change means that, for example, in the case of the Valley Murder case, the prosecution can continue to investigate not only the cases sent by the police for murder, but also the attempted murder charges that do not harm the identity of the suspect Lee Eun-hae. ]

[Reporter Park Chan-geun: The bill prohibits direct indictment, that is, prosecution of cases in which he initiates investigations in the future.

It was introduced for this purpose when the investigative prosecutor was biased against prejudice to prevent unreasonable prosecution.

However, in order to file a prosecution, the prosecution has to understand all the facts, and whether or not to put these procedures aside and put them in court, what to do if they are asked to judge only this, are protesting like this.

The original bill prevented the investigative prosecutor from maintaining the prosecution, that is, from participating in the trial, but this content was omitted.]

[Reporter Lee Han-seok: Yes.

In the beginning, if the Democratic Party specified 'etc', the prosecution said that there was a crime against public officials.

So, there is room to use it as a basis for investigating other serious crimes.

So, in order to limit corruption and economic crimes to just these two crimes, you have to nail it to 'medium', that's it.

However, in the process of discussion between the ruling and opposition parties yesterday, the power of the people is already limited to two arbitration proposals by the Speaker of the National Assembly.

They argued that it was right to grant some degree of discretion in the scope of the prosecution's investigation by the Presidential Decree.

In the end, it is known that today, in order to preserve the spirit of agreement between the ruling and opposition parties, it is known that they have finally agreed to mark 'middle' as 'etc.']

[Reporter Park Chan-geun: With such an exception clause, the prosecution allowed the prosecution to continue investigations until the local election in June.

However, from the general election to be held two years later, direct investigation by the prosecution will be impossible.

Are politicians getting out of the prosecution's investigation? These criticisms are still valid.

Also, there are criticisms that allow direct investigations until the end of this year, and that the deadline is too short.

According to the prosecutors specializing in election investigations, in many cases the provision of money and goods is made long after the election is over.