Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) presents the First Class Victory Medal to Minister of Public Security To Lam. VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY/VIET NAM NEWS
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has spoken highly of the Ministry of Public Security’s contributions to the fight against corruption of the whole country.
Addressing the conference to review corruption prevention and control work of the ministry on December 30, Phuc said the security force had played a key role in fighting against and investigating corruption cases.
According to Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant-General Le Quy Vuong, since 2013 when the ministry’s steering committee on anti-corruption, thrift practice and combating wastefulness was established, the ministry has prosecuted 1,856 corruption cases and 4,072 offenders, retrieving nearly 19.5 trillion dong ($846 million) and more than 290,000sqm of land.
The ministry has strictly imposed fines on serious and complicated corruption cases, including ones remaining unsolved for a long time, sticking to the motto of not giving any priority to any case.
The money laundering cases that went unsolved in previous years but have been investigated and prosecuted include those of Tran Van Liem, Giang Kim Dat, Nhat Cuong case and Alibaba Real Estate Group.
The ministry detected violations in the healthcare sector to issue warnings, including the illegal bidding of medical equipment at the Hanoi Centre for Disease Control and inflating purchase price of medical equipment at Hanoi’s Bach Mai Hospital.
Phuc asked the ministry to work closely with the Government Inspectorate and relevant agencies in finalising mechanisms on corruption and regulations in corruption management while building a national database on managing properties and incomes of former officials who used to hold positions.
The prime minister praised the ministry for being the first sector to follow the anti-corruption orders issued by President and Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong at the national conference on corruption prevention and control on December 12.
Highlighting that the CPV and the state always attach importance to anti-corruption work, Phuc asked the ministry to accelerate the investigation progress of serious corruption cases that attract public concern, focusing on those who make fake drugs, evade tax, cause pollution and the cases covered by officials.
On this occasion, the prime minister, who is also chairman of the Central Emulation and Reward Council, presented the First Class Victory Medal to the ministry.
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