The Art of Wealth Declaration: Over 2.06 Million Disclosures in 5 Years, 147 Disciplined for Violations

According to the Government Inspectorate’s report at the conference, the implementation of the Law on Corruption Prevention and its guiding documents has yielded numerous positive outcomes across various aspects of the work. Ministries, sectors, and localities have focused on inspecting and supervising the implementation of the code of conduct for officials and public employees in performing their duties and public service.

Along with this, they have organized the rotation of positions for those with authority and power in accordance with the Law on Corruption Prevention and its guiding documents. In the past five years, 235,271 officials and public employees have undergone job rotation as a measure to prevent corruption.

The inspection of assets and incomes of officials and employees has also been properly implemented by ministries, sectors, and localities. From 2020 to 2024, over 2.06 million people declared their assets and incomes. Of these, 37,106 people had their assets and incomes verified. As a result of the inspections and verifications, 147 people were disciplined for violating regulations on asset and income control.

According to the Government Inspectorate, ministries, sectors, localities, agencies, organizations, and units have strictly adhered to the regulations on the responsibility of leaders in anti-corruption work.

From 2020 to 2024, 264 leaders and deputy leaders were disciplined for negligence that led to corruption, and 73 people were criminally handled for the same reason.

Alongside the achievements, the Government Inspectorate also pointed out that corruption remains a complex issue with serious nature, involving significant amounts of assets and high-ranking individuals. The effectiveness of corruption prevention measures has been limited.

The rate of recovery of corrupt assets and losses is still low, while the value of assets to be recovered in corruption and negativity cases remains large. The legal provisions for handling corrupt individuals are not strong enough and lack deterrence, thus not truly effective in preventing corruption.

At the conference, delegates presented theses and contributed ideas to improve mechanisms and policies in anti-corruption work. Ms. Nguyen Quynh Lien, Head of the Democracy, Supervision, and Appraisal Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, proposed to promote the role of society in anti-corruption.

To achieve this, Ms. Lien suggested that specific regulations are needed to enable the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political, professional, and business organizations, the press, and people to proactively participate, instead of only being involved when assigned or invited.

Emphasizing the resolute, persistent, and uninterrupted anti-corruption efforts without any “forbidden zones” or exceptions, Inspector General Doan Hong Phong stated that after more than five years of implementing the Law on Corruption Prevention, corruption has been gradually curbed and shows a downward trend.

Before the conference, Mr. Doan Hong Phong mentioned cases that have attracted public attention, such as Van Thinh Phat, AIC Company, Phuc Son Corporation, and Thuan An Group, as evidence of the political determination in the fight against corruption without any “forbidden zones” or exceptions.

In addition to improving anti-corruption mechanisms and policies, Mr. Doan Hong Phong suggested that the legal corridors for socio-economic management should also be improved to close loopholes and ensure unity and synchronization, preventing individuals from exploiting them for corruption and negativity.

According to the Inspector General, inspection, audit, investigation, prosecution, judgment, and enforcement agencies should focus on completing their organizations, apparatus, and forces to better perform anti-corruption work. The inspection agencies should also strengthen the detection and handling of corruption through inspections and promptly transfer cases with criminal signs to investigation agencies.

Inspector General Doan Hong Phong also proposed to promote the role of society in anti-corruption and negativity, associating anti-corruption with enhanced supervision of the National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels.