 The ("banmin teugwi", ) Special Committee for Prosecution of Anti-National Offenders was set up in 1948 under the rule of Syngman Rhee to prosecute the "chinilpa".It handled 682 cases; 559 cases were handed over to a special prosecutor's office, which handed down indictments in 221 cases.A special tribunal tried 38 cases, sentenced guilty verdicts and punishments in 12 cases including one death sentence.