“Unveiling Unscrupulousness: 2.06 Million Declare Assets over 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 civil servants and public employees have undergone job rotation to prevent corruption.

The ministries, sectors, and localities have also properly implemented the control of assets and incomes of officials and civil servants. From 2020 to 2024, more than 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 implemented the regulations on the responsibility of heads of agencies in corruption prevention and negativity control.

From 2020 to 2024, 264 heads and deputy heads of agencies were disciplined for irresponsibility, allowing corruption to occur; 73 people were criminally handled for irresponsibility, resulting in corruption.

Along with the achievements, the Government Inspectorate also pointed out that corruption remains very complicated and serious, with the amount of corrupt assets and the positions and powers of corrupt individuals being significant. The effectiveness of corruption prevention measures remains 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 on handling corrupt individuals are not strong enough and lack deterrence, thus not really effective in corruption prevention.

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

To do this, Ms. Lien suggested that there should be specific regulations for the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, professional and business associations, the press, and people to proactively participate, instead of only participating when assigned or invited.

Emphasizing the strong, persistent, and relentless deployment of corruption prevention work, with no restricted areas or exceptions, Inspector General Doan Hong Phong said that after more than five years of implementing the Law on Corruption Prevention, corruption has been gradually curbed and shows a tendency to decrease.

Before the conference, Mr. Doan Hong Phong mentioned some cases that have received special attention from public opinion, such as Van Thinh Phat, AIC Company, Phuc Son Group, and Thuan An Group, as evidence of the political determination in corruption prevention work, with no restricted areas or exceptions.

Along with improving mechanisms and policies on corruption prevention, Mr. Doan Hong Phong suggested that the legal corridors on socio-economic management should also be improved to close loopholes, ensuring unity and synchronization, and not allowing subjects to take advantage of them for corruption and negativity.

According to the Inspector General, inspection, audit, investigation, prosecution, judgment, and enforcement agencies need to pay attention to completing the organization and apparatus and arranging forces to ensure the effective implementation of corruption prevention work. The inspection agencies also need to strengthen the detection and handling of corruption through inspections, especially the timely transfer of cases with criminal signs to investigation agencies.

Inspector General Doan Hong Phong also proposed to promote the role of society in corruption and negativity prevention, associating corruption prevention with negative prevention, and strengthening the supervision of the National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels in this work.