[단독]He said that he was “political”… Beomgye Park goes to Daejeon for nuclear power investigation

Justice Minister Park Beom-gye attends a video cabinet meeting held at the Seoul Government Complex in Sejong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 16th. News 1

It was confirmed that the Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye will visit the Daejeon High Prosecutor’s Office, the top agency of the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office, which is investigating the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility evaluation of the Wolseong nuclear power plant No. 1 on the 24th. After Park visited the Incheon Airport Immigration and Foreigners Office (Incheon Airport Office) related to the illegal emergency departure ban by former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui on the 10th, and chose Daejeon, which is related to the nuclear power plant investigation, as the second place of visit, the prosecution said, ” There is a back statement saying, “I have different intentions to exercise external pressure on major investigations.”

Summarizing the coverage of the JoongAng Ilbo on the 16th, Minister Park will visit the Daejeon Probation Office and the Daejeon High Prosecutor’s Office on the 24th. The Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office, who is in charge of investigating the nuclear power plant, was missed from the visit schedule. Currently, the Ministry of Justice and Daejeon High Prosecutor’s Office are coordinating major schedules such as meals with Minister Park and Daejeon High Prosecutors’ Office Kang Nam-il and meetings with employees.

The reason behind the prosecution about Park’s departure to Daejeon is that the jurisdiction of the Daejeon High Prosecutors’ Office includes the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office, which is conducting nuclear investigations. In addition, the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office and the Daejeon High Prosecutor’s Office use one building together.

Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office 5th Criminal Division (Director Sang-Hyeon Lee) prosecuted three officials from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy who deleted 530 files, including reports from the Blue House related to Wolseong Unit 1 in December of last year, followed by a pre-arrest warrant against former Minister of Industry Baek Woon-gyu this month. Charged. Although the warrant has been dismissed, the investigation team is focusing on the investigation by capturing the involvement of the superiors, including former Minister Baek and Chae Hee-bong, former Blue House industrial policy secretary (currently the president of Korea Gas Corporation).

An executive of the prosecution said, “Being aware of the nuclear investigation, the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office does not seem to visit,” he said. “The Daejeon High Prosecutors’ Office is a high-ranking organization that has jurisdiction over the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office. . In addition, he added, “There is no precedent of any past Minister of Justice visiting only the high prosecutor except for the district prosecutor when visiting the front office.” In particular, there are observations that the Minister Park intends to visit Daejeon immediately after dismantling the nuclear power plant investigation team from the personnel of the deputy general prosecutor-level prosecutors.

However, an official from the Ministry of Justice denied that “I know it is not Daejeon.”

Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol is arriving at the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office for a meeting with prosecutors in Daejeon on the afternoon of October 29 last year. yunhap news

In particular, Minister Park made the day when Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol visited the Daejeon High Prosecutors’ Office (October 29, 2020) in November of last year, when he was a lawmaker. On November 5-6 last year, after Yoon’s visit to Daejeon, the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office went into a large-scale seizure and search for the Wolseong Unit 1 incident.

At the time, Minister Park criticized Facebook as “very political”, saying, “I have doubts about whether it is aiming at President Moon Jae-in,” in a post entitled “What I would like to ask Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol regarding the investigation of the 1st Wolseong prosecutors’ office.” . “There was a visit to the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office on October 29 by General Yoon, and it is confirmed by the media that the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Doo-bong or the chief prosecutor in charge is a close friend of President Yoon.” It seems that the entire decision process of early closure beyond the abolition is inevitable to be investigated by abuse of authority,” he wrote.

The first visit to the prosecutor’s office after Park’s inauguration was controversial. Following the Incheon District Prosecutor’s Office on the 10th, Minister Park visited the Incheon Airport Office under the Ministry of Justice to inspect the site. We also held meetings with employees. The Ministry of Justice explained that it was “a part of a field-oriented administration that has nothing to do with the alleged illegal withdrawal of Kim’s withdrawal.” The reason is that the visit of the Minister of Justice is not appropriate in the situation where key personnel of the Incheon Airport Administration are being investigated by the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office.

Reporters Kang Kwang-woo and Jung Yu-jin [email protected]