The prosecution has launched an investigation into corruption allegations involving solar power projects under the former Moon Jae-in administration.

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office on Thursday assigned several cases related to the alleged violations to an interagency unit dealing with national financial crimes in the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office.

This is the first case for the interagency investigation unit that began operations last month aimed at rooting out fiscal fraud, tax evasion and other crimes targeting state coffers.

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office plans to allocate the remaining cases to offices across the nation as well.

The move follows a request last month by an office under the prime minister, the Office for Government Policy Coordination, to look into two-thousand-267 cases of irregularities in the spending of government funds set aside under the previous Moon administration to promote the installation of solar panels.

The office said they found that such irregularities led to the misappropriation of more than 261 billion won in funds.