Former Environment Minister Kim Eun-kyung, who was handed over to the trial in the case of the’Ministry of Environment blacklist’ case, is heading to court to attend a sentence on the charges of obstructing the exercise of rights of abuse of authority held at the Seoul Central District Court on the 9th. yunhap news
As soon as the Moon Jae-in administration entered the waters, many of the suspicions of the’Ministry of Environment blacklist’ allegedly turned out to be true. The conclusion of the first trial court in this case was “The Blue House and the Ministry of Environment’s decision to put the desired personnel into the offices of public institutions under the Ministry of Environment, the executives appointed during the former regime were expelled by the pressure to submit their resignations. It can be summarized as “I went on to.” The judiciary also poured out criticism, saying, “The incident that caused the people to deeply distrust the process of hiring executives in public institutions.
On the 9th, the court nailed former Environment Minister Kim Eun-gyeong as the “crime leader”. Many of the prosecutions were also judged guilty. The result was the withdrawal of “two years of imprisonment and legal restraint.” Shin Mi-sook, former Cheong Wa Dae balance personnel secretary, who was also prosecuted, was convicted of conspiring for the remaining major crimes, except for the “combined resignation urgency,” and was convicted (a probation of three years in one year and six years in prison). In particular, the judgment of the judge that the two men gave an unreasonable instruction (obstruction of the exercise of the right to abuse of authority) against the government officials of the Ministry of Environment, “it is not a crime only legally, and abuse of personnel rights or illegal instructions are correct” to be.
Among former Minister Kim’s charges of abuse of authority, the first part of the conviction was the urgency to submit collective resignation. Between December 2017 and January of the following year, he repeatedly ordered 15 executives appointed during the Park Geun-hye administration to resign, and 13 actually expressed their appreciation. It was less than a year since the Moon Jae-in administration was inaugurated. The judiciary pointed out that the submission of the resignations of the remaining 12 people, excluding the aunt of the National Institute of Ecology, who had been promised’next seat’ from the Ministry of Environment, was “to do so-called’water change’ without a valid reason for dismissal. However, for the alleged conspiracy of former secretary Shin, he was found not guilty, saying, “There are suspicious circumstances, but there is no clear evidence.”
In the process of selecting a successor to an executive who had completed the’water change’ by former Minister Kim and former secretary Shin, most of the charges (abuse of authority and obstruction of work) were also judged guilty of giving sublime help to a specific person who had been identified in advance. Regarding the secret provision of internal data in order to pass the appointed person, the judge pointed out that it is “abusing of personnel rights even though it is difficult to bury a crime under the law.” In addition, the suspicion of instructing government officials at the level of the Ministry of Environment and Director-General who participate in the Executive Recommendation Committee (Chuwi Lim) to give high marks to the nominee during the selection process was also recognized as’true and illegal’.
From the investigation of the’Ministry of Environment blacklist’ case to the first trial decision. Graphic = Reporter Park Gu-won
The judges also held accountability to former Minister Kim and others for the’rejection’ of pitiful applicants during the selection process for the Environmental Corporation’s standing auditor. When Moo Park, a former journalist appointed by the Blue House, was rejected from the document screening, it was considered that it was a crime of abuse and obstruction of work that gave an order to “fail” all seven other candidates who had entered the interview stage. However, regarding the provision of a position as the CEO of A Energy Development for the rejected Mr. Park, the judge said, “This matter is’unfair act’, but it is under the command and supervision of the Minister of Environment, so we cannot ask for abuse of authority.” Said.
It was found that the act of penalizing the Ministry of Environment’s officials for’missing Park’s documents’ was’some guilty, some innocent’. While former Minister Kim’s charges of reproaching Hwang Mo’s environmental and economic policy officer Hwang Mo’s environmental and economic policy officers were convicted of abuse, Shin’s ex-secretary secretary, Kim Mo, the head of the Ministry of Environment’s Operational Support Division, asked him to write a statement because “there was no intention of threatening.” ‘Has been sentenced. In addition, former Minister Kim Hyun-min, who refused to respond to the’resignation proposal’, was convicted of coercion that Kim Hyun-min performed a’target audit’ against the standing auditor of the Environment Corporation.
The judiciary said, “There were 13 submitting resignations illegally received by former Minister Kim Eun-gyeong, 15 persons appointed as executives by recommendation of Lim Cold-wi, who lost their fairness, and about 130 good-looking victims who applied for the offices believing that this was a legitimate review process.” He severely rebuked former Minister Kim and former secretary Shin. In addition, he pointed out the reality that it has been recognized as a’natural practice’ to replace executives of public institutions with different values and dispositions whenever the government changes, saying, “It is an illegal practice that must be overcome because the damage is very serious.”
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