HCM City: 29 expelled from Party for wrongdoings

Van Trong Dung, former Vice Secretary of the Party Committee and former Chairman of the Members’ Council of the Saigon Agriculture Corporation One Member Limited Liability Company, has been expelled from the Party (Photo: Portal of the Ministry of Public Security)

HCM City (VNA) – Twenty-nine Party members in Ho Chi Minh City have been expelled from the Party due to their wrongdoings in four cases subject to supervision by the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption.

The disciplinary measure was issued by the Standing Board and the Inspection Committee of the municipal Party Committee.

Regarding the case of “embezzling asset”, “violating regulations on the management and use of State asset, causing losses and wastefulness”, and “lacking sense of responsibility, causing serious consequences” at the Saigon Agriculture Corporation One Member Limited Liability Company, nine violating persons were expelled from the Party, including Van Trong Dung - former Vice Secretary of the Party Committee and former Chairman of the Members’ Council of this firm.

For the case of “embezzling asset” and “violating regulations on the management and use of State asset, causing losses and wastefulness” at the Tan Thuan Industrial Promotion Co. Ltd (IPC) and the South Saigon Development JSC (SADECO), 11 Party members are subject to the expulsion.

Meanwhile, the same disciplinary measure was issued for eight Party members involved in the case of “violating regulations on the management and use of State asset, causing losses and wastefulness” at the Tan Thuan Construction and Investment Co. Ltd, including Pham Van Thong - former Deputy Chief of the HCM City Party Committee’s Office, and Phan Thanh Tan - member of the Party Committee of the city’s Civil - Administration - Party Bloc, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee of the municipal Party Committee’s Office, and former Deputy Chief of the municipal Party Committee’s Office.

In the case of “violating regulations on land management” at the Land Lot 8-12 project on Le Duan street in Ben Nghe ward of District 1, the Inspection Committee made the expulsion decision against Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, former Director of the HCM City House Trade Management Company, due to her infringement of legal rules on the management of the State’s finance, asset, and land, as well as regulations on corruption and wastefulness prevention and control, which caused “very serious” consequences, the Inspection Committee announced./.

VNA