People’s procuracy sector applauded for anti-corruption efforts

Tran Quoc Vuong, Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, has lauded contributions of the people’s procuracy sector in the fight against corruption.
People’s procuracy sector applauded for anti-corruption efforts ảnh 1Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Tran Quoc Vuong, Politburo member and permanent member of the Party CentralCommittee’s Secretariat, has lauded contributions of the people’s procuracysector in the fight against corruption.

Speaking at a conference inHanoi on December 27 to launch the people’s procuracy sector’s tasks in 2020, Vuongsaid the sector has seriously realised relevant directives and resolutions onanti-corruption issued by the Politburo.

The Supreme People’sProcuracy has joined hands with the Ministry of Public Security, the SupremePeople’s Court and the Party Central Committee’s Commission for InternalAffairs to strictly handle many serious, complex corrupt and economic cases,helping to enhance public confidence in the Party leadership and the procuracysector, he stressed.

According to the official,over the past years, especially in 2019, the investigation, prosecution andjudgement of economic and corrupt cases have been conducted scientifically and inline with the Party’s viewpoints and the State’s law.

Talking about the caserelating to the State-ownedtelecommunication giant MobiFone's purchase of 95 percent ofshares of Audio Visual Global JSC (AVG), Vuong praised the performance of judicial agencies. 

This is a bigcorruption case, involving two former members of the Party Central Committeeand other high-ranking officials, he said.

Vuongdescribed the case as typical in consequence settlement, with 8 trillion VND(over 347 million USD) recovered so far, saying the judgement is taking placein a just, democratic and objective manner, reflecting the Party’s high resolvein the fight against corruption.

Theofficial urged the sector to continue with comprehensive innovation and utiliseresources to complete assigned tasks, and build a pool of procuracy officialswith high revolutionary morality, stuff, experience and combat capacity./.

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