Hong Kong will set up a special prosecution department to deal with scientific and tec

Zhang Guojun, deputy director of the Hong Kong Department of Justice, said that the Criminal Prosecution Section of the Department of Justice will set up scientific and technological crimes as soon as possible to more effectively combat the legal challenges brought about by scientific and technological progress and respond to the progress of scientific and technological progress.

According to Hong Kong Zhongtong News Agency, Leslie Cheung published on Sunday (July 9) to publish a blogDigital evidence has also derived more and more complex legal issues, and crimes through the Internet also involve the complexity of cross -border crimes.He believes that prosecutors must closely follow the development of scientific and technological development and master potential scientific and technological crimes in order to effectively enforce the law. Therefore, the establishment of a special responsibility team for the Criminal Prosecutor's Section of the Department of Justice is an urgent work.

Zhang Guojun said that the sub -subject will also formulate relevant prosecution policies and strategies to provide legal guidance on the use of digital evidence, review whether the laws of the current evidence and the crimes of cracking down on scientific and technological crimes are effective enough, and put forward reform suggestionsEssence

The Hong Kong Legal Reform Commission (Law Reform Association) also published a consultation document dependent on computer networks and judicial jurisdiction last July to make preliminary suggestions on legal reform.Zhang Guojun said that he would consider the suggestions of the French reform and follow up in detail.

He emphasized that actively improved the prosecution of related scientific and technological crimes and assisted in improving network security to provide more solid guarantees for individual and national security.

It is reported that in the past 6 years, the case of Hong Kong's scientific and technological crimes has tripled.Among them, a total of 22,797 scientific and technological crimes rose 41%year -on -year, mainly involving online fraud.In the first quarter of this year, the fraud case rose 6 and a half year, more than seven of them became online fraud.In addition, illegal people use artificial intelligence to synthesize the sound and face of celebrities to fraud or release various false information.