The government has intensified its corruption fight.
The government-led Central
Committee for Preventing and Combating Corruption on August 22, 2012 agreed on
a plan to establish an inter-sector task force exclusively in charge of
supervising investigations of serious corruption cases and some localities home
to serious corruption cases would witness the force’s investigations.
This move reflected the
government’s bigger push to fight corruption, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan
Dung.
This move also came amid the
committee’s 18th meeting last week, in which Dung underlined the need for
authorised bodies to soon improve the quality of legal regulations sensitive to
corruption, like land management and usage, state-run administration and state
bodies’ accountability.
The bodies were also required to
deepen their inspection, auditing, investigation and prosecution of corruption
cases.
“We look forward to learning more
about the plan to establish an inter-sector inspection task force to monitor
and review the inspection, investigation and prosecution of serious corruption
cases,” the British Embassy to Vietnam’s Charge D’Affaires of Kate Harrisson
told VIR.
“Efficient inter-agency
cooperation is absolutely crucial in the fight against corruption. We stand
ready to work with the different agencies to enhance their combined efforts to
identify corrupt practices and bring the perpetrators to justice,” she said.
The committee’s Office chief
Nguyen Dinh Phach reported the committee’s anti-corruption activities in the
year’s first seven months reaped “positive results”. The inspection sector
launched 6,065 inspections in this year’s first half, reclaiming nearly VND6.5
trillion ($312.5 million) to the state coffers and nearly 1,300 hectares of
land.
However, the Government
Inspectorate head Huynh Phong Tranh said: “Corruption remains an increasingly
serious issue that can be seen in many sectors and levels, causing discontent
among the public. Corruption is also a big challenge for the Party’s leadership
and the state’s management.”
Harrison said corruption
threatened growth and stability, hurt the poor and the vulnerable and was
harmful to economic development. So it was in everyone’s best interest for the
environment of integrity and transparency in business relationships to improve.
“As lead development partner on
anti-corruption we are working with the government and the donor community to
explore ways to promote the role of private sector further, including foreign
companies who are operating in Vietnam. We are also encouraging the government
to introduce stricter corporate governance standards and to increase
transparency and implement further reforms of state owned enterprises to
improve competitiveness in this sector.”
The Party General Secretary
Nguyen Phu Trong in June, 2012 issued Conclusion No21-KL/TW of the 5th plenary
session of the 11th Central Communist Party of Vietnam taking place on May,
2012 on strengthening the Party’s leadership on anti-corruption and
wastefulness.
Under the conclusion, the
existing Law on Anti-Corruption and other relevant documents would be amended
and a regulation on controlling incomes of those officials would be made, so
that officials’ assets and incomes at their working places and residential
areas must be publicized.
“The types of officials and officers
needing to declare their assets and income will be gradually swollen. Also the
scope of publicising the asset and income declaration results of cadres, Party
members and officers will be expanded,” said the conclusion.
Thanh Dat | vir.com.vn
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