Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the meeting on November 10 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Central Steering Committee forAnti-corruption instructed agencies to speed up the investigation, prosecution,and judgment of big cases from now to the yearend during its meeting under thechair of its head, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong inHanoi on November 10.
The cases included the one on “using the Internet to appropriate assets;organising gambling, gambling; illegal trading invoices; money laundering andabusing power and position while on duty” in the northern province of Phu Thoand a number of localities; and the other on “violating regulations on managingand using public investment causing serious consequences” in Mobifone, the Ministryof Information and Communications and related offices.
At the meeting, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong stressedthe important role of the assessing agency though its work is just being usedas a mean of reference during the process of judgment.
However, he said “assessors will be examined to see whether they performtheir tasks in conformity with law or not.”
He requested competent agencies accelerate the fight against minor corruption,especially at administrative units, as that deed cause people’s distrust.
Besides, localities receiving the inspection teams of the Steering Committeemust implement seriously and efficiently the teams’ conclusions, he said.
The Steering Committee applauded efforts made by public security, military,prosecution, and court agencies, and others, after the committee’s meetings,saying they have created a drastic change in the prevention and control ofcorruption, receiving high estimations from people.
After the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee on April27, agencies completed the investigation in 11 cases, issued prosecutionindictments for 11 cases, and held instance trials for 13 cases, includingcomplicated and serious corruption and economic cases like the case on “abusingposition and power while performing official duties”, “using falsifieddocuments of agencies and organisations”, committed by Dinh Ngoc He – alsoknown as “Ut troc”, former Deputy General Director of Thai Son Corporation – andother accomplices.
The Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committeeasked the Political Bureau, the Secretariat and the Central Committee to takedisciplinary measures against five Party members under the management of the PartyCentral Committee as they committed wrongdoings in the cases monitored by theSteering Committee.
These outcomes again demonstrated the determination of the Party and State inthe fight against corruption, confirming that no exceptions are allowed in thefight.-VNA
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