The national conference in Hanoi on June 30 (Photo: VNA) The hybrid event saw thepresence of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, head of the CentralSteering Committee for Corruption and Negative Phenomena Prevention and Control;President Nguyen Xuan Phuc; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; along with keyofficials of central agencies and the 63 localities.
At its fifth session in May2012, the 11th-tenure Party Central Committee decided to establishthe National Steering Committee for Corruption Prevention and Control under thePolitburo which is chaired by the Party General Secretary so as to ensure comprehensiveleadership over the corruption combat nationwide.
On September 16, 2021, thePolitburo issued Regulation No. 32-QD/TW that expands the functions, tasks, andpower of the central steering committee, which now also covers the preventionand control of negative phenomena.
Reporting on the 10-yearfight, Phan Dinh Trac, Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission forInternal Affairs and Standing Vice Chairman of the central steering committee, saidduring the period, more than 2,700 Party organisations and nearly 168,000 members have been disciplined, including 7,390 members punished forcorruption or links with corruption. Among them, the Party Central Committee,Politburo, Secretariat, and Inspection Committee have issued disciplinary measuresagainst over 170 officials under the Party Central Committee’s management.
Through inspection and auditing,relevant agencies have proposed nearly 44,700 collectives and individuals withwrongdoings be dealt with along with over 975 trillion VND (41.8 billion USD) andnearly 76,000ha of land be recovered, and transferred about 1,200 cases showingsigns of crime to investigation agencies.
Besides, prosecutionauthorities have launched investigation into 19,546 cases with 33,868 suspectsand prosecuted 16,699 cases with 33,037 suspects for corruption, position abuse, and economic-relatedcharges.
Meanwhile, corrupt assetrecovery has been improved much as civil judgment enforcement bodies haveregained 61 trillion VND, equivalent to 34.7% (compared to the rate of lessthan 10% in 2013). In particular, nearly 50 trillion VND, equivalent to 41.3percent, worth of corrupt assets in the cases subject to the central steeringcommittee’s supervision has been recovered.
Trac also highlightedimprovements in institutional building, personnel affairs, asset and incomecontrol, policy and law dissemination, as well as the inspection,investigation, prosecution and hearing of cases, and the enforcement of verdicts.
At the conference, participantssaid the fight has been carried outdrastically, comprehensively, and methodologically with very strong politicalresolve, resulting in considerable outcomes and winning people’s support.
The achievements so far haveproved that the Party and State’s objectives, viewpoints, policies, andsolutions on the fight, especially the establishmentof the central steering committee led by the Party General Secretary, arecompletely right and timely and match demand in the reality, they added./.
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