THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Government News
Party leader chairs conference on local-level corruption fight
VGP - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, head of the Central Steering Committee for Corruption and Negative Phenomena Prevention and Control, on June 19 chaired a conference to review one-year operation of provincial-level steering committees for anti-corruption.
The conference to review the one-year operation of the Central Steering Committee’s provincial sub-committees across the country, Ha Noi, June
The conference aimed at sharing experience, giving instructions to solve difficulties and obstacles as well as finding solutions to improve the operational efficiency of the provincial-level steering committees.
Provincial-level committees have put 444 corruption cases under their supervision, according to a report released at the conference.
Competent authorities at local-lelves instituted legal proceedings against 530 new corruption cases involving 1,858 persons of whom 1,132 are Party members and public employees.
About 15 Party organizations and 80 cadres and public employees working at anti-corruption agencies have been disciplined.
The provincial-level steering committees have concentrated on directing and strengthening the inspection, supervision and settlement of complaints and denunciations; thereby promptly correcting deviations and strictly handling Party organizations, officials and Party members who violated.
Earlier, the fifth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee on May 10, 2022 decided to establish provincial/municipal steering committees for anti-corruption in an effort to accelerate corruption combat in grassroots levels.
Three months later, all 63 provinces and cities formed these steering committees, with the capital city of Ha Noi, the north-central province of Thanh Hoa and the central city of Da Nang taking the lead.
They have quickly formulated working regulations, assigned tasks to members and developed working programs to be undertaken./.