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Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol is expected to regain strength in the investigation of the Wolseong nuclear power plant suspicion as he revived his knight from the unprecedented discipline in the constitutional ideology.
The summons investigation of key officials in the alleged case, including former Minister of Industry Paik Woon-gyu and Chee Hee-bong, then the Blue House Industrial Policy Secretary (currently the President of the Korea Gas Corporation), is expected to be conducted soon.
According to law enforcement officials on the 25th, the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office (Prosecutor Sang-Hyun Sang-Hyeon), the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office, investigating the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility of the Wolseong Unit 1 nuclear power plant. The investigative power is being gathered to identify the entity of the decision to close the nuclear power plant early.
In particular, the prosecution believes that there is something wrong with the actions of A (53), an official at the level of the Ministry of Industry, who was handed over to trial.
Mr. A is a person who is accused of instructing subordinate Mr. B to delete data related to Wolsong Unit 1 (damage to public electronic records, violation of the Auditor Act) in November last year, just before the auditor’s request for data submission.
Mr. A was found to have previously stated, “In December 2017, etc., he reported to former Minister Paik Woon-gyu the plan to promote the early shutdown of the Wolseong nuclear power plant.”
At the time, it is known that Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), which wanted to continue operating Wolsong Unit 1, was in a position to postpone it until permission to change operation, not immediately after the board of directors decided, even if it shuts down early.
Nevertheless, it was revealed that the audit result of the auditor was revealed that the results of the audit of the auditor were revealed by the audit result of the auditor that Minister Baek made a policy to the effect of’the KHNP Board of Directors will be shut down at the same time as early as the decision to close the board of directors.’
As a result of the prosecution’s investigation, it was revealed that Mr. A had been on a business trip to the presidential secretary’s office on December 6, 2017 and March 15, 2018, around the day that he reported the facts to the former secretary.
At the time, the agenda he brought with him is known to include plans for the closure of Wolseong Unit 1 and a plan that included the details of “convincing the board of directors to convince the board of directors by specifying the implementation of follow-up measures in the management contract of the new president of Han Soo-won.”
In fact, on May 29, 2018, it is reported that the Ministry of Industry, at the time, included the early closure of Wolseong Unit 1 in the management performance agreement, the new president of Han Su-won, Jeong Jae-hoon. On April 4 of the same year, President Chung received a decision to appoint the president from the Blue House.
The prosecution plans to intensively investigate the involvement of the Blue House in the process of delivering the decision to KHNP by the Ministry of Industry.
Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol▶ Click here to enlarge
Yoon’s term of office is now about seven months, but he is more powerful than ever as he has been reconfirmed for the improperness of discipline. Accordingly, it is expected that the investigation command, which has been stagnating so far, will also be in full swing.
The Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office has repeatedly stated that “this investigation has nothing to do with the president,” but it is known that it is more actively adjusting the schedule for summoning key officials of the upper line with the return of the office of the president.
The prosecution is planning to call former Minister Baek and others to confirm the clear facts related to the case sooner or later.
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