Vietnam’s Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption (CSCA) has asked law enforcement force to bring to justice eight corruption cases in the remainder of 2019 with the involvement of former senior officials.
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The affirmation was released at the committee’s meeting on May 21, chaired by Executive Secretary of the Communist Party's Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong, who is also deputy head of the CSCA, Vietnam News Agency reported.
Eight cases which have caused public indignation mostly are charged with deliberate violations.
(1) Deliberate violation of regulations on management of state assets, causing serious consequences and serious consequences of irresponsibility at Vietnam Social Security.
(2) Violating regulations on the management and use of land; misuse of state assets causing wastefulness at Hai Thanh Company.
(3) Breaking regulations on public investment, causing serious consequences; bribery at MobiFone Corporation. Two formers information ministers have been prosecuted in this case.
(4) Violating regulations on construction works, causing serious consequences at PetroVietnam Biofuels JSC – Phu Tho.
(5) Breaking regulations on the operations of banks and transactions related to the operations of the banking sector at SouthernBank.
(6) Infringing regulations on the management of land; misuse of state assets, causing splurge in Danang.
(7) Misuse of state assets, causing squandering at Saigon Alcohol Beer and Beverages Corporation (Sabeco)
(8) Misuse of state assets, causing wastefulness at the project in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
Prominent law breakers include Phan Van Anh Vu, aka Vu Nhom, former Ministers of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son and Truong Minh Tuan,
The meeting also reviewed the recovery of stolen public assets in corruption cases.
Fighting corruption in Vietnam
Vietnam does not have a specialized corruption prevention body. Preventing corruption is the mandate of all agencies, organizations, units and socio-economic organizations, said the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The CSCA is the advisory agency of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in leading and steering anti-corruption work.
Headed by Secretary General of the CPV, the committee is responsible for directing, coordinating, monitoring and urging anticorruption efforts all over the country, especially in severe and complicated cases.
Challenges
Currently, a common anti-corruption database has not been developed, thus Vietnam has to cope with a number of difficulties in monitoring, assessing and summing up progresses of the implementation of anti-corruption laws as well as anticorruption work, according to the UNODC.
In addition, the methods of conducting the dissemination and propaganda of anti-corruption laws are still simple, unidirectional, lack of creativeness, together with the absence of an effective communication strategy, which lead to the misunderstanding of the citizens, business and public servants and officials on those laws and the state anticorruption efforts.
