9th day after launch, an employee of the Heavy Water and Water Administration who was not even familiar with the job... “Emergency situation in the early stages of opening”

‘Opening closure’ status continues due to insufficient infrastructure… There is a lack of personal equipment such as PCs.

Early establishment of the organization is an urgent priority... An investigation and organization operation manual was belatedly prepared.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Yun-ju = Although the Serious Crimes Investigation Office (Serious Crimes Investigation Office) has entered its 9th day, investigation preparations are still sluggish due to a lack of infrastructure such as manpower and facilities.

Due to the absence of the head of the organization and the lack of a proper work system, much of the work is being done by hand. The Central Investigation Agency is reviewing the complaints and accusations received and is still in the stage of preparing to begin the investigation.

According to the legal community on the 11th, the Central Investigation Agency assigned complaints and denunciation cases received after the opening of the agency to the relevant departments of each agency.

The department in charge is reviewing related documents, but has not begun the actual investigation due to insufficient infrastructure.

The Central Investigation Agency cannot establish its own criminal justice information system (KICS), so it is borrowing the police KICS, but currently only essential functions such as receiving case transfers, filing, and distribution are available. It is expected that it will take about three years to build the Heavy Water Administration's own KIX.

As of the 2nd, the first day of its opening, the Central Investigation Agency received more than 30 complaints and accusations, and cases are still coming in through the Civil Affairs Office and the National Newspaper Center.

However, functions such as case processing and the criminal justice portal can only be used after the opening of the second phase of KIX in December, so until then, the preparation and transmission of investigation records, and ledger entry must be processed manually.

Administrative information systems such as electronic payment and email use the Onnara system of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and messengers use PC Kakao Talk or 'On Talk', an internal messenger for civil servants.

It is known that there are a significant number of investigators who have not been provided with work PCs.

For this reason, most of the theft of work, including work systems, reports, and approvals, is carried out manually.

Although meetings are being held under the chairmanship of each agency, it is reported that they are limited to reporting on the situation after the agency was opened.

An investigator at the Central Investigation Agency's headquarters said, "There is nothing we can do due to the lack of infrastructure, and the work has not been specifically determined." He added, "Meetings continue, but there is no progress."

An official from the local Heavy Water and Water Administration also said, "Even if you try to ask about the work, the staff in charge at the headquarters are busy and busy, so it is difficult to understand the work."

The Heavy Water Investigation Agency's position is that it is continuing preparation work for each department to establish the organization. We are producing our own manual on case handling and organizational operations.

An official from the Heavy Water and Water Administration said, “As we recognize that this is an emergency situation in the early stages of opening, we are making preliminary preparations to exercise various functions.”

Meanwhile, attention is being paid to whether the artificial intelligence (AI) hacking incident that recently hit the domestic financial sector will become the 'No. 1 incident' of the Central Investigation Agency.

The Seoul Central Investigation Agency is examining whether hacking incidents in the financial sector constitute serious crimes and whether it is possible to notify the police of a transfer request.

It has been determined that the police have not yet transferred or notified the Central Investigation Agency of the case.

The Seoul Heavy Water Investigation Agency is continuing to review whether this AI hacking incident is subject to investigation under related laws.

Cybercrime is included in the six major crimes subject to investigation by the Central Investigation Agency. However, the Act on the Organization and Operation of the Central Investigation Agency (the Central Investigation Agency Act) stipulates that among cybercrimes, the Central Investigation Agency can only investigate crimes that correspond to attacks on the nation's core infrastructure.

Previously, the police determined that the damaged financial institution itself did not constitute national core infrastructure, but requested an authoritative interpretation from the Financial Services Commission to confirm whether the compromised system constituted electronic financial infrastructure.

There is also the possibility that crimes closely related to people's livelihood, such as drugs or voice phishing, will be the first targets of investigation.

A significant number of personnel from the existing Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office voice phishing government joint investigation team and the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office drug joint investigation headquarters have moved to the Seoul Central Investigation Office and Suwon Central Investigation Office, respectively, and are continuing to review the case based on the existing investigation situation.

As President Lee Jae-myung is known to be reviewing the operating system to take charge of the follow-up investigation of the rebellion case following the team of special prosecutor Cho Eun-seok and the second comprehensive special prosecutor team Chang-young Kwon, there is interest in whether an investigative organization in the form of a special investigation headquarters for the civil war will be established within the Central Investigation Agency.

Kim Ji-yong, a candidate for the head of the Central Investigation Agency, also expressed his will to investigate the rebellion case when he met with reporters on the 8th, saying, "I will not sit idly by and strictly correct acts that shake up the national discipline and eradicate the crime of rebellion, and establish discipline."