[단독]’Removal of original case’ was promoted to Minister of Industry and Minister of Industry

It was confirmed on the 3rd that the head of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy A, who was handed over to the trial due to the suspicion of’Wolseong Unit 1 economic evaluation manipulation and data deletion’, moved to the minister’s policy adviser 20 days after the prosecution.

Mr. A, who was the head of the nuclear power plant policy section of the Ministry of Industry (2017-2019), intervened in evaluating the economic feasibility of Wolseong Unit 1, and afterwards, when the audit began, he ordered the deletion of related data. It was handed over to trial along with secretary Kim Mo.

In response to this, in the data on the current status of the three people submitted by Congressman Haejin Cho in early January, the Ministry of Industry said, “The two men (Moon and Kim) were arrested. but Mr. A, who was prosecuted without custody, is in charge of the affairs of the country under the position of director”

In May 2019, Mr. A, who moved to the energy innovation policy department, was promoted to the product safety policy department one year later. At the time, the audit was in full swing by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

According to the audit result of the Audit and Inspection Office, Mr. A said in November 2019, “Please delete the data related to Wolseong Unit 1 in emails and mobile phones. There are people on weekdays, so organize them on weekends.He intervened in this case, such as instructing Secretary Kim.
On December 23, last year, the prosecution took over the case and charged three people, including Mr. A, for damage such as public electronic records, violation of the Auditor’s Law, and intrusion of room. Unlike the rest of the two arrested, Mr. A dismissed the warrant and was prosecuted without custody, stating that the court “approves the charges in general.”
As a result of further confirmation of the disciplinary action of Rep. Cho, Mr. A was transferred to the Minister of Industry’s Policy Advisor on January 15, 20 days after the prosecution without disciplinary action. It is a place to study and plan major policies within a short distance of the Minister.

Rep. Cho said, “I was not enough to be promoted to director during the audit. Even after the prosecution, instead of disciplining, I was seated as the minister’s policy adviser.”
Article 73-3 (position system) of the State Public Officials Act stipulates that’a person charged with a criminal case may not be assigned a position’.

In this regard, the promotion of Mr. A to the director of the Ministry of Industry was carried out before the results of the audit of the auditor came out. Considering that he was unable to engage in the field due to trial preparation, he went as a policy adviser to the minister. Personnel actionI explained. The position of disciplinary action is to be decided based on the results of the prosecution’s final investigation and the trial process.

In addition to Mr. A, among the characters appearing in this case, there are a number of people who are attracting attention for their shift after the incident. At the time, Cheong Wa Dae’s industrial policy secretary became president of Korea Gas Corporation, and Jeon Young-taek, vice president of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, went to Incheon fuel cell president. In April 2018, Mi-ok Moon, who posted an article on the Blue House’s internal reporting network, “The outer wall of Wolseong Unit 1 was exposed,” was selected as the head of the Institute for Science and Technology Policy, a government-funded research institute last month.

◇野, request for a national politics investigation = Regarding the fact that the list of documents related to “North Korean nuclear power plant construction and inter-Korean energy cooperation” was included in the list of data deletions such as the accused Mr. A (prosecutor’s office), the power of the public officially conducted a national politics investigation on the day. Demanded. In a speech from the representative of the bargaining group, Ho-young Joo, the head of the people’s power, insisted that “the ruling party should take the lead in demanding national aid and revealing it to the public, rather than concealing, whether confidential information from the Ministry of Industry related to the Korean nuclear power plant has passed to North Korea.” Subsequently, in cooperation with the National Assembly,’the Moon Jae-in administration’s request for a state affairs investigation to investigate the suspicion of a nuclear power plant construction document in North Korea’ was submitted to the National Assembly.

Reporters Ilhoon Hyun and Sungmin Yoon [email protected]