Viet Nam Human Rights
Ninth meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption (Source: VNA)
Participants discussed the progress of handling especially serious cases and coordination mechanism between central and local investigation and prosecution units.
Concluding the event, the Party chief hailed the Party Central Committee Commission for Internal Affairs - the standing agency of the committee - for making thorough preparations for the meeting.
He asked relevant units to accelerate the progress of serious cases of public interest, including the cases at the Vietnam Construction Bank and the Ocean Bank involving violation of State regulations on economic management causing serious consequences, violation of lending regulations among credit organisations.
The Party leader also called for attention to new cases launched on the basis of new findings at trials of corruption cases related to Vietinbank official Huynh Thi Huyen Nhu and accomplices, Vu Quoc Hao at Agribank Finance Leasing Company II, among several others.
The leader requested strengthening coordination mechanism between units concerned at the central and local levels when it comes to investigation, prosecution and trial of corruption and economic crimes under the watch of the committee and the Commission for Internal Affairs.
Suggestions at the event will be collected and submitted to the board for consideration and approval./.
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Corruption is considered an obstacle for doing business in Viet Nam, and the use of facilitation payments is widespread when dealing with frontline civil servants.
order to improve the business climate and attract foreign investment, the country has made efforts to combat corruption.
Anti-corruption has moved to the forefront of the political agenda, and the legal framework for tackling corruption is now better developed.
The Government established an anti-corruption body, the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption, and issued the National Strategy for Prevention and Combating Corruption towards 2020.
Corruption also occurs in large-scale transactions.
It happens when powerful business interests influence public policies and decisions in their favour.
o combat corruption, the Government has been pushing more transparent administrative procedures.
Even though the battle against corruption was still quite young, anti-corruption committees nationwide had co-ordinated well with each other and fulfilled their assigned duties. However, challenges still remained.
To ensure the full enforcement of the anti corruption law, it was important to have a comprehensive legal system and behaviour code as well as professional ethics for civil servants and public employees, as these people were the ground troops in the struggle.
The country must continue to promote the information, education and communication campaign among government officials and civil servants.
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