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Choi Jae-hyung, director of audit and inspection. / News1 © News1 For the first time in Moon Jae-in’s administration, the Board of Audit and Inspection conducted an audit of the Presidential Advisory Committee and discovered several violations.
The Audit and Inspection Board explains that this is a normal audit according to the usual procedure, but considers that the conflict between the Blue House and the Audit and Inspection Board has also broken out.
Choi Jae-hyung’s harsh expression of ‘counterattack’ is even mentioned in the fact that it is an audit announcement that followed after being attacked by passport lawmakers multiple times in the National Assembly due to an audit related to the early shutdown. from Unit 1 of Wolseong.
According to the Audit and Inspection Board on the 18th, the results of the periodic audits of the four presidential advisory committees, including the Presidential Secretariat, the Office of National Security, the Presidential Security Service and the Balanced Committee, were released on the day 17 according to the regulations. It was discovered that Chairman Song Jae-ho, Chairman of the Balanced Development Committee (Balance Committee), former Vice Chairman Lee Yong-seop and Lee Mok-hee, former Vice Chairman of the Chairman Direct Works Committee and the Chairman of the Committee of Economic and Social Work (Gyeongsa Nowi), Moon Seong-hyun, received a fixed salary for the supporter of state affairs differently from state affairs. The Kyunbal Committee did not even notify the ex officio members of the meeting. Even after the ‘Special Public Communication Committee’ was established in 2018 to collect local issues, only two meetings have been held and there has been no activity since.
This is the third time Moon Jae-in’s administration has audited the Blue House auditor. The first audit was the audit of the operation of the three organizations, including the Presidential Secretariat, the Office of National Security and the Presidential Security Service, 15 years after 2003.
The Board of Auditors has been conducting financial-based audits in consideration of specialty functions such as the office of the presidential secretary. Announced.
The second auditor, in October of the same year, accepted the request for a public interest audit from the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, when there was a controversy in the policy on the use of business promotion expenses by the Blue House and the agency central administrative office, and in March 2019 released the results of the “ Verification of the Status of Execution of Business Promotion Fees ”.
At the time, the auditor revealed that as a result of a thorough investigation by extracting 2461 business expenses that were executed during the limited time of use, no issues such as false evidence or private use were identified.
This audit was conducted in accordance with the 2020 annual audit plan. However, unlike the previous audit, an audit was also conducted on the president’s advisory committee.
The Audit and Inspection Board stated the background, saying: “At the time of the audit, we have established an audit plan to verify together with the policy planning committee with a large budget in consideration of the fact that there has been no full inspection by presidential advisory committee. “
The Board of Audit and Inspection explained that there is no other special reason for the audit, but it is drawing attention as it is an unusual audit of the presidential committee, and gaps in salary execution and organizational functioning are revealed.
Consequently, political circles are sending suspicions that the showdown between the Blue House and Auditor General Choi Jae-hyung is an undercurrent of appreciation. The controversy arose when the auditor of Wolseong Unit 1, which the Audit Office started in October last year, passed the legal deadline (last February). In this sense, reports of confrontation with the government were released, which is implementing a post-nuclear energy policy.
Furthermore, regarding the appointment of the audit committee, they disagreed with the Blue House. President Moon Jae-in tried to appoint former Deputy Justice Minister Kim O-soo as an audit committee, but Choi is known to have rejected the proposal twice.
However, the Board of Audit and Inspection drew a line that said, “It is not unusual at all” through regular institutional audits.
In the press reference published this afternoon, the auditor said: “The auditor is publishing the full text of all audit results on the auditor’s website, except for some matters related to national defense and national security.” In the same way, it was disclosed on the audit agency’s website, and this audit result was not unusually disclosed. “
He said: “There is no basis for giving this audit a specific meaning in relation to other audit matters, so please refer to future reports.”
(Seoul = News 1)
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