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South Korea's cabinet passes bill to strip prosecutors of investigative power, transferring all criminal probes to police and two other agencies in the first major overhaul of the system in over 70 years. The Criminal Procedure Act revision takes effect Oct. 2.

South Korea's cabinet on Tuesday passed a bill to abolish prosecutors' authority to conduct investigations, transferring all criminal investigations to police, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, and a new serious crimes investigation agency. President Lee Jae Myung said the reform, the first major overhaul of the criminal justice system in over 70 years, separates investigation from prosecution to address decades of prosecutorial abuse.

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