Improve the effectiveness of corruption prevention from the root

Among these, there are prominent cases that have caused public outrage, such as the case related to the Nghi Phu Hotel, Supermarket and Pharmaceutical and Medical Business Complex Project (Vinh City) invested by Minh Khang Company Limited, which was verified by the inspection agency to have violations since 2021.

After the inspection agency transferred the case to the police investigation agency, and initiated a case and prosecuted the defendant, on September 28, 2023, the People's Court of Nghe An province sentenced Nguyen Dinh Khang - Head of the Minh Khang Urban Area Project Management Board to 20 years in prison for "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and 12 years in prison for "Abuse of trust to appropriate property", the total sentence is 30 years in prison; defendant Nguyen Thi Thu - Director of Minh Khang Company to 12 years in prison for "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and 8 years in prison for "Abuse of trust to appropriate property", the total sentence is 20 years in prison, at the same time, forced the two defendants to jointly compensate the principal and interest to the victims.

Both defendants filed an appeal, claiming their innocence and requesting a review of the verdict. However, at the appeal hearing held on March 19-20, 2024, the High People's Court did not accept the appeal, partially amended the first instance verdict regarding the interest calculation, and upheld the verdict against defendants Nguyen Dinh Khang and Nguyen Thi Thu.

In addition, there was also a case related to the Truong Son residential cluster project, Cua Nam ward (Vinh city), invested by Tien Luc Joint Stock Company, which was discovered by the inspection agency to have committed violations in the process of implementing land management, land use, land allocation and deduction of site clearance compensation (GPMB) from the land use fee payable for the project by recording revenue and expenditure in an incorrect manner, causing a loss of more than 7.7 billion VND to the State.

Recently, in 2024, the inspection agency transferred 2 cases to the police investigation agency. Among them, there was a violation in the management of revenue and expenditure of non-state budget sources at Na Ngoi Primary and Secondary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities, school year 2020 - 2021 and school year 2023 - 2024. In June 2024, the Investigation Police Agency of Ky Son District Police initiated a case and prosecuted Pham Manh Hung - former Principal and Truong Xuan Cuong - accountant of the school for embezzlement of property and abuse of position and power while performing official duties.

In addition, there was also a violation in the collection and disbursement of revenue at Nghe An Dermatology Hospital. Specifically, after receiving a citizen's complaint regarding many violations at Nghe An Dermatology Hospital, the Department of Health established a verification team and concluded that this hospital had many violations.Such as: Creating fake labor contracts for 7 nurses, reporting higher revenue, examination and treatment data than actual, performing construction before winning the bid, collecting money from patients but not performing tests...

According to the report of the Provincial Police, the total amount of money and corrupt assets discovered was up to more than 92.7 billion VND; more than 62.6 billion VND of corrupt assets were recovered.

Improve the effectiveness of anti-corruption work

The work of preventing and combating corruption has received attention from the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and People's Committee. Specifically, in 5 years, the whole province has issued 1,243 documents to specify and lead and direct the implementation of the Law on Preventing and Combating Corruption and documents of the Central Government and the Provincial Party Committee on preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity.

However, some groups of solutions to prevent corruption have not really brought high efficiency. In particular, the direction and guidance on corruption prevention in enterprises, organizations, and non-state sectors have not received due attention. The work of transferring work positions, declaring assets and incomes has not brought practical results. Corruption cases have not been detected through internal self-inspection. The handling of responsibilities of leaders has not reflected the true situation. Some officials and civil servants lack training and self-discipline, take advantage of loopholes in management, mechanisms, policies, and take advantage of assigned tasks to harass and profit...

According to the assessment, the situation of corruption and negativity is expected to continue to have complicated developments. The development of the market economy will affect a number of cadres, civil servants and public employees who lack training and education, take advantage of their understanding of the law in the assigned fields, take advantage of loopholes in the law to commit acts of corruption, personal gain, and group interests, affecting the reputation of the State apparatus.

In particular, petty corruption is creeping into agencies and units, causing public anger and dissatisfaction, concentrated in a number of sensitive areas such as: Construction investment, land management, trade, finance, public procurement investment, banking, healthcare, etc.

To improve the effectiveness of anti-corruption work, on April 3, 2024, the Provincial People's Committee issued Decision No. 809/QD-UBND to establish a Working Group to evaluate anti-corruption work consisting of 25 members, headed by the Provincial Inspector General. On May 2, 2024, the Provincial People's Committee also issued Document No. 3436/UBND-NC on institutionalizing the Party's guidelines and policies on anti-corruption and negativity into law.

At the conference to review 5 years of implementing the Law on Anti-Corruption on December 24, the Provincial People's Committee determined to continue to synchronously and effectively implement solutions to prevent corruption, especially regulations on publicity and transparency; build a team of officials with sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, meeting the requirements of tasks in the new situation. Carry out the work of controlling assets and income according to regulations, focusing on verifying assets and income of people with positions and powers... In particular, it will tighten discipline and administrative discipline; promptly detect, prevent and strictly handle acts of harassment, negativity, causing difficulties and troubles for people and businesses when transacting with State agencies...