Party leader chairs anti-corruption meeting
VGP - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Wednesday presided over a meeting of the standing board of the Central Steering Committee for Corruption and Negative Phenomena Prevention and Control.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong
The meeting aims to review the handling of notorious graft scandals and discuss preparations for a national conference to review one-year anti-corruption at the provincial level.
At its 23rd session held in January 2023, the Central Steering Committee for Corruption and Negative Phenomena Prevention and Control requested speeding up the investigation, prosecution and first-instance trial of 10 key cases under its management.
The most notorious cases include the test kit scandal at Viet A Technologies JSC, the bribery scandal regarding repatriation flights for Vietnamese people at the Consular Department of the Foreign Ministry, and the stock manipulation scandal at FLC Group.
Two other cases under close scrutiny are the property fraud case at Tan Hoang Minh Group and the case regarding medical supply procurement violations at AIC – Viet Nam Valuation and Investment JSC.
Nguyen, who is head of the Central Steering Committee, has reiterated the Party’s strong stance on combatting corruption among ranking officials, emphasizing that the anti-corruption drive an irreversible trend in Viet Nam.
He has also refuted rumors that the ongoing anti-corruption drive is an internal purge or an internal struggle among various factions of the Party.
The leader must be held accountable for weaknesses and corruption-related mistakes in his organization, agency, or locality, he said, adding that all power must be strictly controlled through legal mechanisms, and anyone who abuses this power for personal gain must be handled for violations.
Significant achievements in the fight against corruption
Viet Nam reaped significant achievements in the fight against corruption over the past more than 10 years, according to a Government’s recent report whi
Anti-corruption solutions have been rolled out concertedly with strong political resolve, raising Viet Nam’s Corruption Perceptions Index to 39 points in 2021 from only 2.6 points in 2009, pushing the country to the 87th position from the 120th out of the 180 countries in the global rankings.
Along with many regulations adopted by the Government stipulating the responsibility of leaders of agencies, ministries, agencies and localities have also issued codes of ethics for officials and public servants.
The report said inspections revealed that up to 4,971 individuals violated such codes during the reviewed period.
Inspections and supervisions targeted such areas as land management and use, construction investment, the equitization of state-owned enterprises, public procurement, personnel work, and financing.
A total of 73,833 administrative inspections and more than 2 million specialized ones were conducted, detecting 670 cases with 1,815 individuals showing signs of corruption.
Since 2009, investigation agencies at all levels have launched legal proceedings against 2,578 cases involving 5,635 individuals, procuracies handled 3,067 cases with 7,383 individuals, and People’s Courts opened trials for 2,929 cases with 5,605 defendants.
Many senior officials, including leaders of Party and State agencies, have been seriously punished, and the fight receives strong support from the public, the report said./.
