By Kim Sue-young
Staff Reporter
Data showed that law enforcement was more lax on public servants than on ordinary citizens.
Rep. Shin Hak-yong of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) said only 5.3 percent of civil servants suspected of criminal wrongdoing were indicted from January to July this year.
The comparative ratio for the indictment of non-government servants was 35 percent, he said, citing a report from the Ministry of Justice.
``The judicature can win public confidence only when it applies laws equally to everyone,'' he stressed, pointing to the figure that only 194 among the 3,661 cases in which public officials were implicated, led to indictment.
Lawbreakers who avoid indictment were fined or just received a warning instead of an appearance in court.
The reports also showed that the National Police Agency was most frequently accused of criminal or corruption cases as 1,090 cases were reported during the period.
The figure stood at 29.7 percent out of the total criminal cases committed by public servants.
The Ministry of Justice was ranked second as its officials were embroiled in 857 criminal cases.
The percentage of indictment of public officials stood at 6.2 percent in 2006 and 5 percent in 2007.