General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the meeting (Photo: VNA)The meeting, the first since the CPV convened its 13th National Congress earlier this year, aimed at reviewing the fight against corruption in the first half of2021, defining key tasks for the second half and making decisions on severalimportant issues.
During the January-June period, Party Committees and InspectionCommissions at all levels imposed disciplinary measures against over 70 Partyorganisations and more than 8,000 Party members. The Party Central Committee’s InspectionCommission proposed the imposition of disciplinary measures against one Partyorganisation and seven officials managed by the Party Central Committee, and manyofficials and leaders of state-owned enterprises who committed violations.
The inspection and audit sectors discovered economicviolations with a total sum of over 54.47 trillion VND (2.37 billion USD) and 1,760 hectares of land,while proposing financial settlements totalling 23.5 trillion VND, and suggesting the withdrawal of over 7 trillion VND and 644 hectares of land.
Attention was paid to investigation, prosecution and trialof economic corruption cases involving many high-ranking officials.
Relevant agencies seized, distrained assets, blockedaccounts, and prevented asset transactions in economic corruption cases with atotal amount of 14.41 trillion VND. Civil judgment enforcement agencies alsorecovered nearly 2 trillion VND.
Regarding the key tasks for the last six months of 2021, thesteering committee requested Party Committees, Party organisations and authorisedagencies to focus on COVID-19 prevention and control, protection of publichealth, and fulfilment of the tasks set in the 2021 Work Programme.
It will speed up the progress of verification,investigation, prosecution and judgment of cases under its supervision; and strivesto finish the investigation of two cases, issue indictments to prosecute sixcases, conduct first-instance trials of nine cases and appeal trials of sevencases, and finish verification and settlement of five cases as planned by theend of 2021.
Party General Secretary Trong, who is also head of the steering committee, requested itto direct relevant agencies to make greater efforts, bring into full play thestrength of the entire people and the entire political system.
The steering committee should do better, achieve higherquality, and pay more attention to self-inspection and self-settlement, hesaid./.
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