In the first 5 months of 2013, the banking industry embezzled and corrupted more than 700 billion VND.
The Government Inspectorate has just announced a preliminary report for the first 6 months of the year, in which it highly appreciated ministries and branches for actively coordinating with inspection agencies and proactively detecting and handling many acts of corruption and negativity in their own sectors.
According to the State Bank’s report, in the first 5 months of the year, the banking sector discovered 21 negative and corrupt cases with the amount of violations amounting to 682.5 billion VND; 561 taels of gold (equivalent to nearly 21 billion VND at current prices) and 50,000 USD (more than 1 billion VND). In addition, the authorities also handled 30 officials, temporarily detained 14 people, and dismissed 2 people.
In the first 6 months of 2013, the Government Inspectorate has inspected and urged the implementation of 7 inspection conclusions as directed by the Prime Minister, including the inspection conclusion of the Vietnam Development Bank. It is expected that on July 19, the Government Inspectorate will hold a press conference to announce the inspection conclusions.
Previously, the State Audit sent the National Assembly the 2012 audit report for the 2011 fiscal year, stating that the State Bank was still slow in supervising the refinancing loans of the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank), the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development (BIDV) and the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade (Vietcombank). In addition, a number of commercial banks that borrowed refinancing loans violated the safety ratio as prescribed since the first 9 months of 2011, but the State Bank only established a monitoring team in November. The results of this audit will also be officially announced in July.
According to QĐND – LY
