Authority to press criminal charges of the procuracy in criminal proceedings

According to the provisions of Article 153 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2021), the agencies competent to prosecute criminal cases include: investigating agencies, units assigned to investigate, the procuracy and the trial panel. Accordingly, the prosecution authority of the investigating agency has the largest competent. Investigation authorities shall make decisions on pressing criminal charges against all matters exhibiting criminal signs, save those handled by units assigned to investigate, procuracies or juries. Units assigned to investigate shall make decisions on pressing criminal charges in the events as defined in Article 164 of this Law. Thus, in addition to the investigating agency, there is also the procuracy, the trial panel and the agency tasked with conducting several investigative activities that have the right to institute criminal cases. However, in the content of this article, the author focuses on the procuracy's authority to press criminal charges.