People Power Party: "Prosecutors Must Uncover Suspicions of Early Shutdown of Wolseong Unit 1... Investigate the Main Culprit Too"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] On the 22nd, the People Power Party announced that they will file a complaint with the prosecution regarding allegations of obstruction of audit and manipulation of economic feasibility evaluation related to the early shutdown of Wolseong Unit 1.

The members of the People Power Party's Industry, Trade, Energy, Small and Medium Business Committee stated in a press release on the same day, "The manipulation of the economic feasibility evaluation of Wolseong Unit 1 and the obstruction of the audit will now be clearly revealed through the prosecution's investigation."

They said, "We ask the prosecution to uncover the truth about the manipulation committed to lower the economic feasibility of continuing the operation of Wolseong Unit 1," and pointed out, "Former Minister of Industry, Back Woon-gyu and others interfered in the evaluation process by external organizations to produce favorable economic feasibility results for the decision to suspend operations immediately, undermining the reliability of the economic feasibility evaluation. President Jeong Jae-hoon of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and others applied the underestimated KHNP forecast price to the KHNP board, damaging the credibility of the economic feasibility evaluation work and hindering rational decision-making."

The committee members emphasized, "Strictly investigate former Minister Back, the Ministry of Industry officials who became the Patent Office Commissioner, Chae Hee-bong, who became the President's Secretary at the Korea Gas Corporation, President Jeong, and 12 others including employees, for violations of the Public Records Management Act, criminal law related to invalid public documents, the Audit Act, abuse of authority, and obstruction of business," and added, "Also investigate the masterminds who made it inevitable for them to commit these crimes."

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