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[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] The prosecution is significantly overhauling the system for confiscation and recovery of criminal proceeds. By digitizing all processes related to the restitution of crime victim assets into a database and linking it with the Criminal Justice Information System (KICS), it is expected that real-time monitoring will prevent omissions and overpayments, as well as enable victims to recover their assets more quickly.

According to the legal community on the 13th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office has begun building a system capable of real-time tracking and monitoring of cases involving crime victim assets. With the annual increase in specific fraud cases such as voice phishing, fraudulent fundraising, and pyramid schemes, the aim is to streamline the processing procedures in investigative prosecutors' offices and enhance the efficiency of criminal proceeds recovery.

Currently, even identifying the target crime victim assets is complicated. Investigative prosecutors must prepare a status report of victims along with the indictment notice and hand it over to the restitution-dedicated prosecutor. Due to the nature of specific fraud crimes involving numerous victims and large amounts of damage, all this information is manually entered.

Initiating the restitution process is also challenging. The restitution-dedicated investigator must frequently check the progress of trials and the status of confiscation and seizure, then report to the restitution-dedicated prosecutor. This process requires logging into individual prosecution work systems one by one. A prosecution official explained, "Since notices such as initiation and decision letters must be processed individually, administrative workload is considerable, and there was a risk of misdelivery or return due to incorrect personal information."

In response, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office plans to build a system that enables real-time tracking from indictment to step-by-step monitoring of trial progress, and after sentencing, confiscation, seizure, and restitution. The goal is to unify all processes electronically, allowing automatic extraction of victim information to prevent duplication, omission, or miscalculation incidents at an early stage.

In particular, they are also pursuing integration with KICS, which is used by criminal justice agencies such as courts, the Ministry of Justice, prosecution, and police to share information and documents. The core idea is to send and receive prosecution information on crime victim asset cases through KICS. The prosecution expects that sharing this information will greatly improve the uniformity and efficiency of restitution work.

In the mid to long term, the system will also be used for researching crime statistics. Until now, investigators manually compiled statistics, but with this system, it will be easy to extract detailed restitution rates by execution, period, victim, crime name, and asset type for restitution target cases. A prosecution official stated, "Currently, restitution-dedicated prosecutors and investigators are assigned at each field office, and various recovery measures for victims of specific fraud crimes are being implemented. Going forward, through the establishment of a one-stop crime victim asset restitution system, faster and more accurate responses are expected."

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