Mr. Vu Huy Hoang was not given a security card to enter the airport quarantine area.

Last weekend, the agencies: Security, Police, Noi Bai Customs, Vietnam Airlines Corporation, Northern Airports Authority, Noi Bai International Airport all received requests to allow Mr. Vu Huy Hoang, former Minister of Industry and Trade, into the airport quarantine area. However, in the end, this request was not resolved.

Specifically, according to Dan Tri's source, Mr. Vu Huy Hoang's request was to be granted a security card to enter the airport quarantine area to see off relatives on business trips abroad.

Mr. Vu Huy Hoang

The above request was also supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade with an official dispatch sent to the following agencies: Noi Bai Airport Security, Noi Bai Border Gate Police, Airport Customs, Northern Airport Authority, Noi Bai International Airport and Vietnam Airlines Corporation to request a solution for Mr. Hoang.

Accordingly, these agencies received a request to facilitate the issuance of security cards, allowing former Minister Vu Huy Hoang to enter the quarantine area to see off his relatives going abroad. The Ministry committed to having a ministry person accompany Mr. Vu Huy Hoang.

Dan Tri's source also said that the flight carrying Mr. Vu Huy Hoang's relatives going abroad and that he wanted to enter the quarantine area to "see them off" was flight number VN 512 of Vietnam Airlines, departing at 10:10 a.m. on May 5, 2017.

"In fact, no one was allowed into the quarantine area that entire day (May 5). Of course, not even Mr. Vu Huy Hoang," a source (who asked to remain anonymous) from an agency that received a document requesting a security card for Mr. Hoang confirmed.

"No agency dealt with this matter: neither the Aviation Corporation, nor Security, nor Customs had any notice or comment, so no activities were carried out in the quarantine area that day," an official source added.

Not long after leaving the position of Minister and retiring, people still see Mr. Vu Huy Hoang traveling abroad with an official passport. Photo: Contributor

The proposal to allow Mr. Vu Huy Hoang to enter the airport quarantine area at this time is considered "sensitive". Because Mr. Vu Huy Hoang has just received disciplinary measures that have never been applied to a former member of the Government in recent years. Specifically, Mr. Hoang was disciplined by the Central Party Secretariat by being dismissed from the position of Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (term 2011-2016).

At that time, the Secretariat concluded that Mr. Vu Huy Hoang was primarily responsible for the violations of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the period 2011-2016 in his role as Secretary of the Party Committee. Mr. Hoang was also said to be lacking in exemplary behavior, showing signs of self-interest in accepting and appointing his son, Vu Quang Hai, as a controller of the Vietnam National Tobacco Corporation, and transferring his son to join the Board of Directors of the Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (Sabeco) to be elected as a member of the Board of Directors and Deputy General Director of Sabeco.

These are considered violations of the Central Executive Committee's regulations on what party members are not allowed to do and the Secretariat's regulations on the exemplary responsibility of cadres and party members, violating the Law on Anti-Corruption, causing outrage in society.

Mr. Hoang is also said to have loosened his leadership and inspection, leading to some units under the Ministry of Industry and Trade not properly implementing regulations on recruitment, reception, evaluation, appointment, and planning of cadres according to management hierarchy, allowing some cadres to violate discipline and be prosecuted. Among them is Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh (who fled abroad and is internationally wanted).

Immediately afterwards, the National Assembly Standing Committee also issued a Resolution on disciplinary action against Mr. Vu Huy Hoang, removing his status as former Minister of Industry and Trade because Mr. Hoang "had committed violations in personnel work while holding the position of Minister".

Therefore, the fact that Mr. Hoang had his "former Minister" status removed but was still asked to be granted a security card with this status could be a reason why the authorities refused to allow him to enter the airport quarantine area.

According to Dan Tri