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The ruling and opposition parties have both visited the National Police Agency, urging a thorough investigation into the 'Jang Yoon-gi case.' The People Power Party has been criticizing the police's monopoly on investigative powers day after day, while the Democratic Party of Korea is emphasizing a fast-track approach, vowing to pass a bill to 'abolish the prosecution's supplementary investigation rights' even if it means working through the night.
Here is the report by Park Chan-beom.
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Democratic Party lawmakers on the National Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee met privately with Yoo Jae-sung, the acting Commissioner General of the Korean National Police Agency, this morning (July 10) to urge an 'investigation without sanctuary.'
[Kim Young-jin / Chair of the National Assembly Public Administration and Security Committee (Democratic Party): We urged them to conduct an investigation and punish those responsible, regardless of their rank or status.]
In the afternoon, the leadership of the People Power Party paid a protest visit to the National Police Agency.
Representative Jang Dong-hyuk was denied entry when he visited the Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency, which has jurisdiction over the 'Jang Yoon-gi case,' yesterday. Today, he engaged in a heated argument with police officials who stated that, due to security regulations, the meeting with Acting Commissioner Yoo could not be filmed by the press.
[Jang Dong-hyuk / Representative of the People Power Party: You are people who follow regulations so well, yet you destroy evidence, manipulate cases, and cover them up! We only asked to film the opening remarks...]
Ultimately, the meeting did not take place due to the dispute over media access.
Standing at the entrance of the National Police Agency, People Power Party lawmakers cited the 'Jang Yoon-gi case' to emphasize that the police should not have a monopoly on investigative powers, and they repeatedly proposed the formation of a 'consultative body between the ruling party, opposition party, and the government' to address the issue of abolishing the prosecution's supplementary investigation rights.
The Democratic Party, which proposed an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act to abolish supplementary investigation rights yesterday, began the full-scale process of passing the bill today—the very next day—by unilaterally convening a subcommittee of the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee.
They are prepared to finalize the legislation by 'late July or early August,' before the Democratic Party's national convention on August 17.
[Kim Seung-won / Ranking Member of the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee (Democratic Party): We are prepared to work through the night if necessary.]
The People Power Party plans to propose its own amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act as a party platform, which would maintain the prosecution's supplementary investigation rights.
Reported by Lee Seung-hwan and Shin Dong-hwan | Video edited by Lee Seung-jin | Produced by SBS Digital News
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