Where is "Independent Investigation Agency" going?The purpose of establishing the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit is overshadowed.

Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, Prosecutors and Police Coordinate Investigation Rights, Launched after '∀'President's Arrest Warrant Enforced 'Dissonance' as He Tries To Hand Over To Police

Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit Should Request Prosecution from Prosecutors in President Yoon's Case

It is also unclear whether the investigation is supplementary or direct under the Public Offices Act.

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Analysts say that the back and forth of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, which was revealed during the investigation of the emergency martial law incident, is due to its inherent limitations.

Some point out that the adjustment of the investigative power of the prosecution and police has been hamstrung in the execution of arrest warrants.

Reporter Jang Ah-young reports.

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The high-ranking government official's crime investigation office was launched with the recognition of the problem of dispersing the investigative authority concentrated in the prosecution and checking the police as well.

But it still has not established itself as an "independent institution" and has borrowed both hands from the most powerful presidential investigation.

Following the formation of a "cooperation investigation headquarters" with the police, they tried to entrust the execution of an arrest warrant that had already failed once, but they only publicly disagreed.

The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit claimed, 'Just as the prosecutor directs the police to execute the warrant, so does the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit,' but

It overlooked the fact that it was a private culture in the phase of adjusting the investigative rights of the prosecution and police in 2020.

[Kim Kwang-sam / Lawyer (appeared on YTN NewsON on the 6th): As the prosecution and police investigation rights have been adjusted, the rules for prosecutors to lead judicial police officers have disappeared. [It's a very simple rule, but the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit can't even confirm this]

The prosecution should request the prosecution to file a prosecution at the end of the investigation.


Yoon brought the case, saying he would investigate the president himself, but he has no authority to prosecute the president.

However, it is unclear whether the prosecution should demand a supplementary investigation from the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit or the prosecution should investigate directly in the process because there are many gaps in the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit Act.

In the future prosecution process, another controversy such as "exercise of authority without legal basis" may arise.

In the end, it is pointed out that the procedures and regulations that should have been determined by the Public Offices Act are left blank, and that the suspect is only providing an excuse to disobey the legal process.

I'm YTN's Jang Ayoung.


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