Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Party GeneralSecretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on July 26 called for strongerdetermination and actions and continuous efforts to confront corruption.
Speaking at a meeting of the Central Steering Committee on Corruption Preventionand Control in Hanoi, the top leader stressed that speeding up the combatagainst corruption is urgently needed as it reflects aspirations of both peopleand the Party.
Inspections and audits must be transparent, he said, emphasizing the need to completethe settlement of pending cases, deal with shortcomings and pay more attentionto key areas.
Trong, who is also head of the committee, touched upon the upcoming all-levelParty congresses and noted that those showing signs of corruption anddegradation in political ideology and morality should not be included in thecontingent of Party committee members.
The key anti-corruption tasks in the next phase cover land, money laundering,investment, personnel work and equitisation of State-owned enterprises, hesaid, asserting the central task is preparations for the all-level Partycongresses.
The leader lauded better coordination and high consensus between concerned agenciesas well as the performance of the committee, which, he said, has devisedorientations for the work.
He, however, pointed out limitations in the combat regarding appraisal and thepoor performance of some localities, and asked the committee to keep a closer watchon anti-corruption in the localities.
In the first six months of this year, localities launched legal proceedingsagainst 176 corrupt cases with 425 people involved, up 13.5 percent in casesand 32.8 percent in the number of the involved year-on-year.
Since the beginning of this year, all-level Party committees and inspectioncommittees issued disciplinary measures against 123 Party organisations and7,923 Party members, of whom 256 involved in corruption, or 21 more than thesame period in 2018.
Inspection and audit agencies proposed reclaiming and settling over 61.39trillion VND (2.63 billion USD) and 142 hectares of land, and imposingadministrative fines on 692 collectives and many individuals.
In the remaining six months, the committee required that “petty” corruptionmust be dealt with efficiently and investigations into 28 cases should bewrapped up, among others.-VNA
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