With regard to the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility of Wolseong Unit 1, the court issued arrest warrants for two officials of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and analysis is reported that the prosecution's allegations of crime specified in the arrest warrant claim were largely clarified.
Deputy Chief Judge Oh Se-yong of the Warrant of the Daejeon District Court issued a warrant for arrest of Director Mo Moon and Secretary Mo Kim, among the three officials of the Ministry of Industry who were accused of deleting nuclear data.
Deputy Judge Oh said the reasons for arrest, saying that these two suspects are "denying the crime and fear of destroying evidence."
Judge Oh decided that the necessity or substantiality of arrest at the present stage was difficult to recognize in the light of the fact that in the case of Jung Mo, generally acknowledging the facts of the crime and vowing to faithfully engage in investigations and trials.
Two officials from the Ministry of Industry's officials will be arrested, and the prosecution is expected to find out who was the top line of the crime.
Director Moon and Clerk Kim argued that they "removed unnecessary data" in the prosecution's investigation and warrant deliberation, but the prosecution suspects that former Minister of Industry, Baek Woon-gyu was involved.
In this regard, the situation in which former Minister Baek criticized the working-level staff and received related reports is mentioned several times in the audit report by the Audit Committee.
The prosecution is particularly paying attention to the role of Korea Gas Corporation President Chae Hee-bong, who served as the Blue House industrial policy secretary.
President Chae is considered a key person who can determine whether the Blue House intervened when evaluating the economic feasibility of nuclear power plants.
Depending on the situation of the prosecution's investigation, the possibility of the prosecution's investigation into the Blue House cannot be ruled out.
The prosecution is expected to investigate the two arrested officials further, and to summon the superiors who were involved in the crime sooner or later.