Overview
- The prosecution reform task force published two establishment bills and the Interior and Justice ministries opened a legislative notice period through Jan. 26.
- The Serious Crimes Investigation Agency would investigate nine areas of major crime, including corruption, economic offenses, public office, elections, defense acquisition, major disasters, narcotics, insurrection or foreign aggression, and cybercrime, under Interior Ministry oversight.
- The investigation body would employ a dual-track workforce of prosecutors and professional investigators, with supervisory authority vested in the interior minister for corrective action in clearly illegal cases.
- The Indictment Agency under the Justice Ministry would be limited to instituting and maintaining prosecutions, with prosecutors barred from launching investigations and new measures planned such as external case review committees and strengthened performance evaluations.
- Key details remain pending, including whether indictment-side prosecutors may conduct supplementary inquiries, which the government will address in Criminal Procedure Code revisions, with crime categories to be further refined by presidential decree and the new agencies slated to launch in October 2026.