Overview
- Party leaders said a special committee will hold a policy forum on prosecutorial abuse Monday and formally request a parliamentary investigation Wednesday.
- The planned inquiry covers seven cases, including three naming President Lee Jae Myung, whose trials are suspended with prosecutors still legally able to withdraw indictments before first rulings.
- Democratic Party chair Jung Chung-rae accused prosecutors of fabricating evidence under the previous administration and pledged to pursue a special counsel and push for dropped charges.
- President Lee called for precise, targeted changes and warned against “burning down the house to get rid of bedbugs,” a message viewed as cautioning hard-line lawmakers pressing sweeping curbs on prosecutors.
- Legal scholars and former prosecutors cautioned that political pressure to retract specific indictments risks eroding separation of powers, as a previously passed overhaul splitting prosecutorial functions is set to take effect in September.