Prime Minister Baek Woon-gyu’s arrest warrant was dismissed: “If you put the standards of the law on public officials, you can’t work”

Input 2021.02.09 14:26

“Consider right and wrong in the direction
If the standards of law are met, you can’t work with the confidence of a public official.”

In connection with the dismissal of an arrest warrant against former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, Baek Woon-gyu, who was accused of intervening in the’Wolseong nuclear power plant No. 1 economic evaluation manipulation’ on the 9th by Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun, “If the standards of law are met, public officials can work with confidence. “No.”

In a post on Facebook this afternoon, Prime Minister Chung said, “I respect the court’s decision on the former minister.” Regarding the audit of the auditor’s evaluation of the economic feasibility of the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 and the prosecution’s investigation based on the results, he said, “The auditor should do the job of the auditor, the prosecution should do the job of the prosecution, and the government should do the job of the government.”

In addition, Prime Minister Chung said, “It is the duty of public officials to implement national policies.” He then wrote, “Going beyond examining the problems of the policy implementation process, if the direction of national policy is right and wrong, and if the standards of law are met, public officials cannot work with confidence.” It is interpreted to the effect that the prosecution’s investigation into the Moon Jae-in administration’s’energy conversion policy (post-nuclear power policy)’ is inappropriate.

Prime Minister Chung said, “I ask the public officials of the Republic of Korea to do business with confidence,” he said. He then wrote, “The government will be with you, the public officials.”

Earlier, in answering a question to the government of the National Assembly on the 5th, Prime Minister Chung said, “It is unclear whether such a matter becomes a judicial decision” when the prosecution requested an arrest warrant for Baek. He also expressed dissatisfaction with the prosecution’s investigation, saying, “The early closure of Wolseong Unit 1 was a pledge of President Moon Jae-in, and was selected as one of the top 100 national affairs after taking office.”

At the end of November last year, when the prosecutors’ investigation into the Ministry of Industry was underway, Prime Minister Chung visited the Sejong City Office of Industry and encouraged employees to “spread your shoulders and move forward confidently”. The department in charge of the nuclear power plant said, “I had a lot of hard work to deal with very hard work.”

After receiving a report of the need for a’temporary operation’ of Wolseong Unit 1 from the Ministry of Industry, who was prosecuted without imprisonment as of April 3, 2018, Minister Baek rebuked “You will die” and reported as “immediate shutdown”. Is being charged with instructing to rewrite.