Five years after the Law on Corruption Prevention and
Control were implemented, Hanoi police have prosecuted 273 defendants involved
125 corruption cases worth about VND 966.8 billion (US$46 million), Nguyen Van
Tuan Dung, Chief Inspector of Hanoi City, said.
He released the figures at
yesterday’s meeting held by Hanoi’s authorities to review its performance on
anti-corruption activities during the past 5 years.
After relevant agencies
recovered VND317.8 billion, the actual loss to the State budget was VND649
billion, Dung said.
This means only about 33
percent of the embezzled money was given back, he said.
As most of the corruption cases
were uncovered by press agencies and the public, this betrays the
ineffectiveness of the anti-corruption mechanism within every agency, said
deputy chairman of the People’s Committee Vu Hong Khanh.
After 5 years, bureaucratic
harassment against citizens, organizations and businesses by government
officials performing their administrative duties still remains in many fields,
including land leasing, verifying investment projects, and granting
certificates of land use rights or house ownership, he said.
Vietnam among countries with
much corruption
According to the 2011
Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which ranked 183 countries and territories
around the world on their levels of perceived corruption, announced by
Transparency International (TI) early this month, Vietnam ranks 112 with a
score of 2.9 (out of 10), Government Deputy Chief Inspector Tran Duc Luong said
at the meeting.
Last year, the country ranked
116th with a score of 2.7, suggesting Vietnam’s anti-corruption activities were
somewhat more effective last year.
According to the TI’s assessment,
countries with scores under 5 are those with endemic corruption and a shifting
economy, Luong said.
TI has introduced three
solutions for countries with a shifting economy, like Vietnam, to drive back
the evil. They include ensuring information transparency, except for
information that can affect national security; controlling the country’s
properties and income, including mineral resources; and promoting the public
role in combating corruption, he said.
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