A bill has been proposed to impose a prison sentence of up to 10 years on judges and prosecutors who distort the law to manipulate facts or issue incorrect rulings.
According to the political circles on the 13th, Kim Yong-min, the policy chief of the Democratic Party of Korea, proposed an amendment to the criminal law that includes punishment provisions for judges, prosecutors, and judicial police officers who distort the law.
The key point of the amendment is to stipulate the establishment of the 'crime of law distortion' in Article 123 of the Criminal Act. Judges, prosecutors, and judicial police officers who excessively delay case handling without justifiable reasons or direct such delays will face imprisonment of up to 2 years and disqualification of up to 5 years.
Furthermore, judges, arbitrators, prosecutors, and judicial police officers who distort the application of the law for the purpose of benefiting or harming one of the parties or who knowingly condone such actions will face imprisonment of up to 10 years and disqualification of up to 10 years.
This is analyzed as part of the Democratic Party of Korea's pressure on the judiciary. Following the Supreme Court's reversal of the case against presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung for violating the Public Official Election Act on the 1st, the Democratic Party of Korea has been continuously introducing bills targeting the judiciary.
Earlier, the Democratic Party proposed a revision of the Court Organization Act, which would increase the number of Supreme Court justices from the current 14 to as many as 100, and introduced a law for a special prosecutor for Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae.
The Democratic Party of Korea said, 'We plan to decide soon in a leadership meeting whether to promote these bills as the party's official stance.'