Effective consultations needed to deal with corruption cases of public concern: Party official

Hanoi (VNA) – The Party Central Committee (PCC)’s Commission for Internal Affairs, the Central Public Security Party Committee and the Party Civil Affairs Committees of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuracy should continue to work closely to speed up the settlement of major corruption cases that draw social attention, said Politburo member and standing member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong.

Thuong, who is also deputy head of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption, made the request at a conference on March 31 to review the seven years of implementation of coordination regulations among the four agencies .

He hailed the effective coordination among the agencies in giving useful advice to the Party in handling corruption cases, especially those related to politics, external relations, and sensitive issues, contributing to ensuring the country’s political stability, social order and national security, and affirming the Party’s determination to fight corruption with the motto of no exceptions.

The four agencies have worked closely together to give consultations to the Party on the reviewing, building and issuing of important directives, resolutions and projects related to internal affairs, corruption prevention and control and judicial reform, as well as the completion of socio-economic and anti-corruption institutions, said Thuong.

He noted that over the past seven years, nearly 200 resolutions, directives and regulations of the Party and laws of the State regarding anti-corruption and judicial reform have been issued, along with many important policies to ensure national security with the advice and support from the four agencies.

The four agencies have also effectively cooperated in supervising the implementation of conclusions of the Party General Secretary and recommendations from inspection and supervision delegations of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, he added.

However, Thuong pointed to a number of shortcomings in the coordination among the four agencies, including the slow issuance of guidelines on the handling of some cases leading to their prolonged settlement.

He required that the four agencies should strengthen their coordination efficiency in giving advice to the Party on policies related to internal affairs, corruption prevention and control and judicial reform as well as measures to protect national security and social order and safety.

According to Thuong, the four agencies should focus on designing a strategy on building and completing the law-governed socialist State until 2030 with a vision to 2045, and a project on the model of specialised agency for anti-corruption and another on the control of power to prevent corruption during the investigation, prosecution, judge and execution of law violation cases.

He suggested that the four agencies concentrate on giving consultations and directions on the handling of cases that receive special attention from the society, while strengthening the supervision over the implementation of the Party and State policies and laws at agencies in charge of internal affairs, and improving the coordination efficiency in proposing relevant policies./.