Supreme Prosecutors' Office Inspection Department, Investigation into Allegations of 'Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Report Solicitation'

Seoul Seocho-dong Supreme Prosecutors' Office / Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] The Supreme Prosecutors' Office has launched a fact-finding investigation to clarify the allegations of 'Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Report Solicitation.'

According to the legal community on the 27th, the Inspection Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office received an official letter and related materials from the Ministry of Justice the day before, instructing them to investigate the allegations of report solicitation related to Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant, and has begun the fact-finding investigation. The Supreme Prosecutors' Office plans to ascertain the circumstances under which a complaint related to misconduct at Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant was filed with the Daejeon District Prosecutors' Office on the afternoon of October 22 last year. The background of how the reference materials sent by the Board of Audit and Inspection to the prosecution were delivered to the Daejeon District Prosecutors' Office is also under investigation.

Earlier, on the 5th, Kim Yongmin, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, raised suspicions during the National Assembly Judiciary Committee's audit that the prosecution solicited reports related to Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant. The Board of Audit and Inspection announced the results of an audit regarding allegations of manipulation of the economic feasibility evaluation of Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 on October 20 last year and sent related investigative reference materials to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office on the 22nd of the same month. However, it is understood that the People Power Party filed a complaint against former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Baek Woon-gyu and others with the Daejeon District Prosecutors' Office on the afternoon of the same day.

Kim and other ruling party lawmakers raised suspicions that the complaint was prepared within two days despite the timing coinciding with last year's National Assembly audit, suggesting it was possible due to the prosecution's involvement. Park Beom-gye, Minister of Justice, also stated at the National Assembly Judiciary Committee's comprehensive audit, "The core point is whether this is a 'report solicitation,'" and added, "The truth must be thoroughly investigated."

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