The Commission for Investigation and Prosecution has informed the Ministry of Commerce and Industry that prosecutors general will not argue cases concerning bounced checks because “their posts are semi-judicial and they do not plead in cases except before the Administrative or General courts, whereas the Committee for Settlement of Disputes on Commercial Papers is not a judicial body”. Informed sources said a new system established to investigate cases of bounced checks was recently assigned by the Council of Ministers to the CIP, which will file cases before the Committee for Settlement of Disputes on Commercial Papers, which is part of the Ministry of Commerce. Sources revealed that under a plan approved by the Ministry of Commerce and the CIP, prosecutors general from the CIP would not argue cases before the committee. According to the new agreement, investigators in the Financial Violation Cases Circuit will prepare the charges lists against people accused of writing bad checks and give the lists to committee advisers, without the need for the CIP to set dates for the prosecutor general to argue the cases. The CIP aims to boost the principle that the prosecutor general should not argue a case before a lower body. Because legal consultants in the Ministry of Commerce's Committee are not a judicial authority, the prosecutor general can argue cases before them.
