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On the 26th, with respect to the arbitration plan for the complete deprivation of the prosecution’s investigation authority, floor leader Kwon Seong-dong said, “The agreement states that a Serious Crime Investigation Agency will be established within 1 year and 6 months, but it is said that it will be formulated. No promises,” he said.
After meeting with reporters at the National Assembly on the same day, floor leader Kwon said, “If you look at the contents of the agreement, it is said that a heavy water office will be built, but there are many things that need to be done under that.”
It is interpreted as suggesting the possibility that the installation of a heavy water office will act as a primer in the subsequent legislative discussion process.
As the agreement states that ‘the prosecutor’s right to investigate directly following the establishment of the Heavy Suspension Office’ is stipulated, it can also be interpreted as meaning that it will take time for the ‘examination and overhaul’ bill to become effective and put into effect.
“We need to discuss how to adjust the existing investigative authority, whether to retain or abolish the Airborne Service, and whether to reduce its functions, etc., and whether to transfer (the function of the Airborne Police) to the Reconnaissance Office,” said floor leader Kwon.
He added, “The police also have an anti-corruption investigation department.
Representative Kwon said, “Now, the prosecution has the right to request supplementary investigations from the judicial police. There should be discussion regarding reviving the investigation command. Also, when the direct investigation right of the prosecution is abolished, what to do with the investigative power of the public service agency, and the right to prosecute “We need to discuss whether to grant this to the Airborne Service,” he said.
“I said that there is a lot of work to be done because the opposition and opposition parties have to come to an agreement (on these issues),” he said.
“We plan to have a conversation this morning regarding the proposal of additional discussions between the Speaker of the National Assembly and the floor leaders of both parties (related to the arbitration proposal),” said Kwon. said.
Regarding the meeting with President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol at the Office of the Transition Committee in Tongui-dong the day before, he said, “I do not think it is appropriate to disclose the contents of the conversation with President-elect Yoon.”
Regarding the issue of amnesty, such as former President Lee Myung-bak and former Gyeongnam Governor Kim Kyung-soo, at the press conference held by President Moon Jae-in the day before, he said, “It is the president’s sole authority and it is the president’s decision, so it is a matter for President Moon to decide.”
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