Internal Prosecutor Network Overhaul... Access to Indictment Details Allowed Only After 3 Months of Prosecution or Upon Official Document Request

Seoul Seocho-dong Supreme Prosecutors' Office / Photo by Honam Moon munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] Prosecutors can now only search for the facts of the charges in prosecuted cases through the prosecution's internal network after three months have passed since the prosecution. Until now, all prosecutors could search for prosecuted cases in KICS to check the facts of the charges.

According to the legal community on the 30th, on the 25th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office revised the Criminal Justice Information System (KICS) to allow searching for the facts of charges only from three months after prosecution. If a frontline prosecutor wants to see the facts of the charges before three months have passed since prosecution, they must send an official document to the relevant investigation team.

This is known to be a follow-up measure by the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in response to last month's controversy over the 'leak of the indictment of Lee Seong-yoon, Seoul High Prosecutors' Office Chief Prosecutor.' At the time of the indictment leak controversy, Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye ordered the Supreme Prosecutors' Office to investigate the truth of the indictment leak allegations. The investigation revealed that the edited version of the leaked indictment had been leaked from KICS.

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office stated, "We improved the function considering the purpose and intent of the regulations on the prohibition of disclosure of criminal cases."

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