Yun Suk-yeol ‘investigation into the closure of a nuclear power plant’ in Daejeon … Request “Best to prevent public nuisance” (general)

[아시아경제 조성필 기자] On the 29th, Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol visited the Daejeon Senior Prosecutor’s Office and District Attorney’s Office and said, “I came to hear the difficulties of seeing how the prosecution’s family works.”

General Yoon said this afternoon before entering the Seo-gu prosecutors office in Daejeon, saying, “As a general manager, I am going to see how Daejeon’s family of prosecutors work as a general manager, listen to the difficulties, and pat the back”. When asked about the initiation of the investigation and the command of the Minister of Justice, Choo Mi-ae, and the order of the inspection, the journalist entered the building directly without giving any response.

General Yoon moved to the neighboring Daejeon court complex, impeded Kim Gwang-tae, the head of the Daejeon High Court, and returned to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for an hour-and-a-half meeting with employees on the issue of reform of the prosecution. Around 10 people, including prosecutors and investigators, attended the meeting, and Yoon is known to have primarily listened to the views of employees on the prosecution reform.

Regarding the application of the Criminal Procedure Law revised in January next year, Yoon urged: “All members of the prosecution gather wisdom and do their best to avoid public nuisance that may occur due to changes in the justice system. penal”. “The vision and objective of the prosecution reform is to guarantee justice and equality in the process of applying criminal law,” he said. He added: “Please take the lead in reforming criminal law enforcement.”

It was only 3 years and 5 months after Yoon’s appointment as the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in May 2017. Yoon, who was a Daejeon Superior Prosecutor’s Office at the time, was promoted to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. with the assessment of the Blue House as “the right person to smoothly carry out the further investigation of Choi Soon-sil gate and the prosecution of related cases.” After assuming the position of attorney general in July last year, he resumed local hours that were temporarily suspended to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) after visiting Busan and Gwangju in February.

The president’s visit to the area is common. However, unusual interests were drawn along with the recent conflict with the Ministry of Justice and declarations of “service to the people after retirement” in the National Assembly audit. In particular, the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office is the prosecutor’s office investigating the “early closure of the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant”. One of Yoon’s closest associates, Chief Prosecutor Lee Doo-bong, is in charge.

The early closure of the Wolseong nuclear power plant is based on content that the government reduced the economic viability of the Wolseong nuclear power plant and removed related data. When the results of the audit conducted by the auditor were announced, the opposition party charged the relevant individuals, including former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy Baek Un-gyu, with the prosecution on charges of abuse of authority. Inside and outside the prosecution office, it is said that the investigation in this case could be a victory and a defeat for Yoon, who is under pressure from the ruling party to resign.

The Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office recently assigned the case to five criminal divisions. The fifth detective’s headquarters was Prosecutor Lee Sang-hyun, and Yoon and General Yoon were confronted by the investigation team in the suspected 2013 NIS presidential election. He is classified as a division prosecutor, Yoon Seok-yeol, and he is a person who established the government and the government in cases involving passport personnel, such as the suspicion of intervening elections in the mayor of Ulsan.

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