Politburo member and permanent member of Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Politburo member andpermanent member of Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong onJanuary 8 asked the procuracy sector to pay more attention to detecting andhandling new corruption cases and better the work in localities.
Speaking at a meeting in Hanoi on January 8, Vuong stressed the need to push ahead with the investigation and settlementof corruption cases in line with regulations of the Party and the State.
The 2021-2026 period marks the building andimplementation of a strategy on judicial reform, he reminded, urging the sectorto provide consultations in this regard.
He said the sector should work harder to improvethe efficiency of the fight against crimes, especially those that tend to riseand develop complicatedly, while proposing solutions to improve the quality ofcrime combat.
He suggested increasing resourcesfor the investigation agency of the Supreme People’s Procuracy so that theagency would become an effective tool in preventing corruption acts and judicialviolations.
The sector was also asked to paymore heed to personnel training, and resolutely handle the officials who violatelaws and show degradation in ideology, morality and lifestyle.
It was reported that over thepast tenure, the sector proposed criminal proceedings against 3,115 cases, up64 percent as compared with the previous term, and directly decided to launch criminalproceedings against 148 others, up 7.2 percent.
The sector has seriously followedinstructions of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption, ensuring thesettlement process.
At the meeting, Vuong lauded thesector for its role in building and completing legal institutions, especiallydocuments in service of the implementation of the strategy on judicial reformand another on building and completing the Vietnamese legal system.
The settlement of administrative andcivil cases has been regarded as the major task of the sector in 2021 and thenew tenure./.
VNA
