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| Former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Baek Woon-gyu, who is accused of engaging in the operation of the economic feasibility evaluation of Wolseong Unit 1, leaves the Daejeon Detention Center after the arrest warrant was dismissed by the Daejeon District Court on the 9th, receiving questions from reporters. 2021.2.9/News1 © News1 Reporter Ki-Tae Kim |
The prosecution’s arrest warrant for the former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Baek Woon-gyu, who is considered a key suspect in the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility of Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1, was eventually dismissed, causing a sudden stop in the prosecution’s investigations headed for the upper line, including the Blue House.
As the arrest of former Minister Baek was regarded as the largest watershed in the investigation of the Wolseong nuclear power plant, which aimed at the upper line in earnest, the failure to secure recruits directly leads to criticism that it is an unreasonable investigation for political purposes.
However, with the prosecution accusations of civic groups based on the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility of nuclear power plants, it is expected that the expansion of the upper-ranking investigation will be inevitable, independent of whether or not Secretary Baek is arrested.
On the 8th, the people’s actions to revive nuclear power filed a complaint with the prosecution on charges of abuse of ex officio abuse, including former chief of society Kim Soo-hyun, Moon Mi-ok, then a blue house science and technology adviser, and Kim Hye-ae, then a blue house climate and environment secretary.
They said, “In 2018, the Blue House Energy Policy TF team organized and organized the secretary to give orders to the Ministry of Industry.” They said, “The Ministry of Industry was manipulated to evaluate the economic feasibility of nuclear power plants in a way that delivered it to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.” Insisted.
On the 1st, a conservative group, the Free Korea National Corps, said, “Please look at the legality of information collection and management,” and accused the Minister of Industry Sung Yoon-mo, Jung Jae-hoon, president of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, and related public officials, on charges such as inspecting civilians against the denuclearization. did.
It is noteworthy whether the summons investigation of Cheong Wa Dae’s industrial policy secretary (President of Korea Gas Corporation) at the time, who is pointed to as the peak of the suspicion of manipulating nuclear power plant economic feasibility with former Minister Baek, will also proceed without a hitch.
The prosecution sees Chae as a key person who intervened in order to manipulate the nuclear power plant economic evaluation with Minister Baek based on internal documents related to nuclear power that were deleted during the audit by the Ministry of Industry, which was handed over to the court.
The prosecution, who restored most of the 530 nuclear power plant-related documents deleted by the Ministry of Industry’s officials, confirmed that a number of documents such as’requests from the industrial secretary’ and’report of the chief of society’ were included and put them in the complaint.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Chief Judge Oh Se-yong of the Warrant of the Daejeon District Court dismissed the preliminary arrest warrant filed by the prosecutors on charges of interfering with the exercise of ex officio abuse rights and obstructing business in the early morning of the 9th.
It is the judgment of the court that it is difficult to say that there is a risk of destruction of evidence in a situation where the evidence submitted by the prosecution alone is insufficient for the clarification of the suspected crime charges, and the official statements have already been secured due to the detention of major reference persons.
Before the prosecution summoned former Minister Baek to investigate, it was interpreted as saying that it was not possible to find a confirmation, although the prosecution was engaged in a reinforcement investigation by calling a former officer of Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power to investigate.
Deputy Judge Oh explained the grounds for dismissing the warrant, saying, “There seems to be room for contention over the crime charges, and it is necessary to ensure that the suspects can exercise their defense rights in the disabled state.”
Immediately after the dismissal of the arrest warrant for former Minister Baek, the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office said, “It is difficult to understand the reason for the dismissal,” and said, “We will engage in the investigation more thoroughly.”