Secretariat expels provincial officials from Party
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on March 28 to consider disciplinary measures against incumbent and former officials of Hoa Binh and Ha Nam provinces and Hai Phong city.
A police officer reads a decision to detain former Vice Chairman of Ha Nam provincial People's Committee Truong Minh Hien (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Party GeneralSecretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’sSecretariat on March 28 to consider disciplinary measures against incumbentand former officials of Hoa Binh and Ha Nam provinces and Hai Phong city.
The Secretariat looked intowrongdoings of four members. They include Nguyen Dong, member of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee’sStanding Board and head of the provincial Party Committee’s Commission for Informationand Education, who used to lead the provincial Party Committee's Commission for Internal Affairs and serve as the standing deputy head of the province's steering committeefor corruption and negative phenomena prevention and control.
Two other members under the analysis were former officials of Ha Nam province, who are Truong Minh Hien, formermember of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board and formerVice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, and Vu Huu Son, former memberof the provincial Party Committee and former Director of the provincial Departmentof Natural Resources and Environment.
The fourth on the list was Maj. Gen. Do Huu Ca, former member ofthe Hai Phong municipal Party Committee’s Standing Board and former Director ofthe municipal Department of Public Security.
Considering proposals by the PartyCentral Committee’s Inspection Commission, the Secretariat concluded that thefour have shown degradation in political thought, morality, and lifestyle. They have alsoviolated the regulations on the things Party members must not do and on theresponsibility for setting good examples. They have broken the Party’s rules and theState’s laws, causing “very serious” consequences, making heavy losses to theState’s money and asset, negatively affecting their Party organisations’ reputation,and stirring public concern.
Basedon the content, nature of their wrongdoings and on the Party’s rules on disciplining violating Party members,the Secretariat decided to expel the four from the Party.
It also asked relevant agencies to carryout administrative disciplinary measures for the abovementioned individuals inaccordance with the Party’s disciplinary action in a timely manner./.
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A police officer reads a decision to detain former Vice Chairman of Ha Nam provincial People's Committee Truong Minh Hien (Photo: VNA) 
