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Anti-corruption committee looks to ramp up efforts in key cases

The Standing Board of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption has urged authorised agencies to step up the fight against corruption and exert greater efforts to finalise the investigation, prosecution, and judgment of eight serious cases which have attracted public concern by the end of this year.
Anti-corruption committee looks to ramp up efforts in key cases ảnh 1Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong, who is deputy head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, speaks at the meeting (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Standing Board of the Central Steering Committee onAnti-Corruption has urged authorised agencies to step up the fight againstcorruption and exert greater efforts to finalise the investigation, prosecution,and judgment of eight serious cases which have attracted public concern bythe end of this year.

The majorcorruption cases occurred at the Vietnam Social Security, Hai Thanh Co.,MobiFone Telecommunications Corp., PetroVietnam Biofuels JSC, Phuong Nam(Southern) Bank, and Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Corp. (Sabeco); together withone case related to the project at No.8-12, Le Duan street in Ho Chi MinhCity’s district 1 and another involved in violations of land managementregulations in the central city of Da Nang.

At the StandingBoard’s meeting in Hanoi on May 21, its members exchanged opinions on a reportinspecting the withdrawal of assets appropriated and lost in corruption andeconomic cases following the Central Steering Committee’s Plan No.192-KH/BCDTWdated September 4, 2018; and a project amending and supplementing the PoliticalBureau’s Regulation No.163-QD/TW dated February 1, 2013 on the function, tasks,power, and working regulations of the committee.

The standingboard also hailed the efforts of authorised agencies to strictly followconclusions made by Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong, whois the committee’s head, at its 15th meeting on January 21, 2019.Thanks to these efforts, legal proceedings started on four cases, whileinvestigations were recovered on four cases, and finished on two others.–VNA 
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