[단독]Past Minister Paik Woon-gyu attends… ‘Nuclear power evaluation manipulation’ under investigation

Former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Paik Woon-gyu attended a meeting in July 2018. Reporter Jang Seung-yoon [email protected]
-Former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Paik Woon-gyu appears at the prosecution on the 25th and is being investigated as a suspect in the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility of the’Wolseong Unit 1’nuclear power plant. According to the results of the investigation by former Minister Baek, there is a prospect that the speed of the investigation against the Blue House, the superior, is also expected.

To summarize the coverage of the Dong-A Ilbo, the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office (Chief Prosecutor Sang-Hyeon Lee) called the former Minister Baek as a suspect on the morning of the morning to investigate. Former Minister Baek is known for intervening in the fabrication of the economic evaluation of the Wolsong Unit 1. It is reported that the prosecution and former Minister Baek agreed to undergo an investigation that day after coordinating the attendance schedule.

For the early closure of Wolsong Unit 1, Baek has been suspicious of intervening in the manipulation of economic feasibility evaluation of the Korean Hydro and Nuclear Power Plant at the time, and intervening in the deletion of related data by officials of the Ministry of Industry in order to hinder the audit of the Audit and Inspection Service. The prosecution has investigated the process of destroying internal data against two officials from the Ministry of Industry who previously prosecuted arrests. According to the audit report by the Audit and Inspection Office, in April 2018, when the head of the nuclear power plant policy department, Industry Department A (currently, the director) reported to Secretary Baek on a plan to temporarily maintain the operation of the Wolsong unit 1, Minister Baek said, “Reconsider that the operation will be stopped immediately.” It turned out to be reprimanded.

Baek is also under suspicion that three officials from the Ministry of Industry were involved in the process of deleting 530 nuclear-related data. In December of last year, the prosecution indicted two government officials of the Ministry of Industry, who were arrested for deleting the Wolseong Unit 1 closure document (damage to public electronic records, violation of the Auditor Act, etc.) As the prosecution skipped the president of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Plant Jeong Jae-hoon and investigated former Minister Baek first, some observations that the Blue House investigation, including Korea Gas Corporation President Chae Hee-bong (former Blue House Industrial Policy Secretary), could begin in earnest. However, the prosecution said that the two officials of the Ministry of Industry, who were arrested earlier, were not cooperating with the related statements, so it was reported that they constituted the charges of the former Minister Baek through the statements of other reference members.
Reporter Eunji [email protected]