[사설]’Gamsuwanbak’ is an anti-democratic explosion that destroys the constitutional spirit.

Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol criticized the passport for pushing for the establishment of a serious crime investigation office to deprive the prosecution of the prosecution’s right to investigate, as’destruction of the constitution’. In an interview in a daily newspaper on the 2nd, Yoon pointed out that “the legislation to establish a heavy water office is to dismantle the prosecutors’ office,” and “use the guise of democracy to abolish the rule of law and destroy the constitutional spirit.” Yoon also said, “The complete deprivation of the prosecution’s power to investigate is to provide extraterritorial jurisdiction to powerful forces.”

If the investigation and prosecution are completely separated, they will not be able to respond to the fouls of the power class and eventually the rule of law may collapse. President Yoon is scheduled to hold a local round-table conference at the Daegu High Prosecutors’ Office on the 3rd, when the opinions of prosecutors on the Heavy Water Administration are gathered, so the wave is not unusual. The possibility of the occurrence of the’third sword egg’ cannot be ruled out. In addition, the Democratic Party’s hard-line lawmakers are planning to initiate a bill from the Heavy Water Administration this week and deal with it in the first half of this year.

The passport claims that’separation of investigation and prosecution is a global trend’, but this turned out to be false. Of the 35 member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 27 countries, which account for 77% of the US, Japan, Germany, and France, guarantee prosecutors’ right to investigate by law. The’Lockheed case’ in Japan and the’Enron accounting fraud case’ in the United States were both directly investigated by the prosecution. In particular, serious crimes are becoming increasingly intelligent, organized, and large, so it is a global trend to merge investigations and prosecutions into one.

As President Yoon stressed, if the investigation and prosecution are separated, it will not be possible to respond firmly to the guilty acts of the social power and vested interests. Even if a person in power commits a crime, it cannot be said to be a democracy and rule of law unless the law is applied fairly. In the end, ‘Gam Su-wan-bak (complete deprivation of the prosecution’s right to investigate)’ is a violent thing that destroys the spirit of the constitution and democracy. The enforcement of the heavy water office aims to retaliate against the prosecutors who have investigated corruption in the current regime and to block the investigation of corruption in power by the prosecution. If the ruling party goes through a runaway legislative process to establish a new heavy water office, the situation will eventually come to an amnesty due to resistance from the people affected by this.

/ Editorial Committee Room

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