‘Obstruction of the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Audit’ Claims for Arrest Warrants Against Three Ministry of Industry Officials



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Suspicion of damages such as public electronic records, violation of the Audit Law


'Obstruction of the audit of the Wolseong nuclear power plant' requested an arrest warrant for three officials of the Ministry of Industry (General)
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[아시아경제 유병돈 기자] The prosecution requested an arrest warrant for officials from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy who participated in the massive deletion of internal data related to the Wolseong No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office Part 5 (Chief Prosecutor Sang-Hyun Lee), investigating charges such as suspected tampering with the economic viability of the Wolseong Unit 1 nuclear power plant, was charged with damage to electronic records Public authorities and violations of the Law of the Audit and Inspection Service on the 2nd. Three arrest warrants were requested under the Daejeon District Law.

According to the prosecution, Mr. A and others are charged with ordering the removal of materials related to Wolseong Unit 1, or approving or assisting them in November of last year, just prior to the request to submit data to the auditor. .

In fact, Mr. B, a subordinate like Mr. A, entered the office of the Ministry of Industry of the Sejong Government Complex at 11 p.m. in the morning of December 2 of the same year, and deleted 444 documents related to the Wolseong Drive 1 for about two hours. Said the auditor and others.

At the time, it was reported that B had corrected the file name, etc. so that the original content could not be recognized even if it was restored later in the case of a document that appeared to be important.

Mr. B said in the auditor’s office: “If I tell you (next to the auditor) that there is no data related to the audit, I thought it might win my mind.” It is known that he spoke.

The prosecution investigated Mr. A, etc., in a state of indifference after the seizure and search, including the Ministry of Industry, etc. However, it was found that there were conflicting statements between the suspects in the suppression order process and the execution process, and it was found that they were caught up in an arrest investigation due to concerns about destruction of evidence.

Earlier, when the Ministry of Industry and Industry received a request from the auditor to submit all internal reports related to Wolseong Unit 1 and all Blue House data on November 26 last year, just some data, such as trends of the lawsuits, they were excluded from the documents reported to the presidential secretary. issued. The elimination took place only three or four days later.

The Ministry of Industry has tried to hide the reasons for communication with the Blue House and other superiors, and the prosecutors decide that it is necessary to confirm the circumstances.

A decision is expected tomorrow whether to issue an arrest warrant.

Reporter Yoo Byung-don [email protected]

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