More international cooperation needed to fight corruption

22/8/17

Anti-corruption authorities and law enforcement agencies from 21 APEC member economies vowed to strengthen their cross-border efforts to fight money laundering and bribery at a workshop held on Aug 19 during the APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM 3) in HCM City.
The 80 delegates at the 4th Meeting of the APEC Network of Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies agreed that “corruption erodes social integrity and fairness, undermines government accountability and public trust, and impedes healthy economic growth.”
Speaking at the meeting, Nguyễn Văn Thanh, Government deputy inspector general and chair of the meeting, said: “Greater cooperation is needed in combating money laundering and recovering stolen assets, and promoting international cooperation in bribery cases, repatriation of fugitives, and informal international cooperation.”
“I believe that our deliberations at this meeting will facilitate direct connections among law enforcement agencies, and create a platform for international cooperation in information exchange, mutual legal assistance, extradition, asset recovery and joint investigation of corruption cases,” he added.
The Anti-Corruption and Transparency Working Group’s Pathfinder Dialogue IV was also held on Saturday. Corruption as a driver of illegal logging and the use of anti-corruption activities by customs’ offices dealing with the forest trade were the main topics discussed. 
What is “grand corruption” and how can it be combated on the domestic and international levels? Is it only about the amount of money or also about the corruption’s quality? These questions were raised during the panel “Willing and Able to Prosecute Grand Corruption” at the 17th International Anti-Corruption Conference in Panama.
According to Transparency International, grand corruption is the abuse of high-level power that benefits the few at the expense of the many, and causes serious and widespread harm to individuals and society. It often goes unpunished, and is globally relevant, not only in individual countries but across borders.
Corruption in Vietnam had caused resource losses, reducing the efficiency of public investment, destroying trust of investors, and weakening national competitiveness. Trịnh Xuân Thanh, former Chairman of the PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC) was found to have violated State regulations on economic management resulting in losses of nearly VNĐ3.3 trillion (US$142 million) for PVC during his leadership.
After he fled to Germany, Vietnamese police earlier issued an arrest warrant. In this case, German authority should cooperate with Vietnam at first to arrest him. Unfortunately, when he gave himself up, the German government also claimed that he was abducted and caused diplomatic crisis between the two countries. It is so regrettable.
Vietnam needs stronger international cooperation to prevent and combat corruption. We all know that corruption is a global problem that uses a global network, and therefore it needs a global response. We should do our domestic job, but at the same time we, all as independent nations, will not be able to be effective without the international anti-corruption community and international anti-corruption system./.

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Me Too! 5/9/17 18:59

It's apperant that anti-corruption fight must be cooperated by all countries, not just a single one.

John Smith 5/9/17 19:03

Vietnam fought corruptive official Trinh Xuan Thanh, but Germany did not cooperate, even they criticized Vietnam for the capture of Thanh. So unconstructive acts!

Socialist Society 5/9/17 19:08

The country has made positive steps in improving legal frameworks and policies on anti-corruption, it said, including passing the Law on Access to Information and revising the Law on Anti-Corruption 10 years after they were originally issued.

Vietnam Love 5/9/17 19:11

Vietnam has issued a national strategy on corruption prevention and control up to 2020. Vietnam has also been fine-tuning its legal system to fight corruption.

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