Since the beginning of the term, 91 officials under the Central management have been disciplined.

At the meeting, the Steering Committee discussed and gave opinions on the results of the Steering Committee's activities in the first 6 months of 2023 and reviewed the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity (PCTNTC) since the beginning of the 13th Party Congress term up to now; identified key tasks for the last months of the year and the coming time.

Disciplined 91 officials under central management

Announcing the results of the meeting on the afternoon of August 16, Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission Dang Van Dung said that in the first 6 months of the year, Party committees and inspection committees at all levels disciplined 218 party members for corruption and 10 party members for violating asset and income declaration.

The Central Executive Committee, Politburo, Secretariat, and Central Inspection Commission have disciplined 13 officials under the Central Committee's management.

The Inspection and Audit sector has focused on inspecting and auditing areas and areas prone to corruption and negativity, and on topics and cases under the direction of the Steering Committee; through inspection and audit, it has recommended the recovery and financial handling of nearly VND 165,000 billion (an increase of more than 10 times compared to the same period in 2022); recommended handling the responsibilities of 784 collectives and 2,912 individuals.

The authorities have strictly implemented the coordination mechanism for detecting and handling corruption and negativity of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee; through inspection, supervision, audit, and execution activities, more than 320 cases with signs of crime have been transferred to the investigation agency for investigation and handling in accordance with the law.

Since the beginning of the term, 91 cadres under the Central Committee's management have been disciplined, including 17 members and former members of the Party Central Committee, and 23 generals in the armed forces (nearly twice as many as in the first half of the 12th Congress term).

The Inspection and Audit sector has proposed to recover and handle financial assets worth more than VND340,000 billion (more than double the first half of the 12th Congress term), more than 1,700 hectares of land; proposed to handle responsibilities for more than 6,600 collectives and nearly 18,000 individuals.

Authorities have transferred nearly 1,200 cases with signs of crime to investigation agencies for consideration and handling in accordance with the law (an increase of nearly 2 times compared to the entire term of the 12th Congress).

Resignation from position, retirement, and assignment to other jobs for 15 officials under the Central management

The new point in this term is that, implementing the policy of the Central Committee, Party committees, Party organizations, and functional agencies have resolutely clarified the political responsibility of leaders, leaders, and managers for allowing serious corruption and negativity to occur in the areas assigned to them for management and responsibility.

On that basis, encourage cadres to resign, request to leave their positions, promptly dismiss and replace cadres who are disciplined, have limited capacity, and have reduced prestige.

To date, the Central Committee has considered removing from office, suspending work, and assigning other jobs to 15 officials under the Central Committee's management; localities have dismissed, dismissed, suspended work, and assigned other jobs to nearly 150 cases after being disciplined, including 4 officials under the Central Committee's management, and 65 officials under the management of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and City Party Committee.

Investigation, prosecution and trial work have been carried out vigorously and resolutely; many particularly serious corruption and negative cases, occurring in both the state and non-state sectors, have been handled methodically, cautiously and strictly, with “no forbidden areas and no exceptions”.

Also during this period, prosecution agencies nationwide prosecuted and investigated 452 cases/1,409 defendants for corruption crimes (an increase of 155 cases/727 defendants compared to the same period in 2022).

In particular, in the cases and incidents under the supervision and direction of the Steering Committee, 7 new cases/37 defendants were prosecuted, 149 additional defendants were prosecuted in 15 cases; 7 cases/107 defendants were investigated, 2 cases/34 defendants were investigated; 9 cases/175 defendants were prosecuted; 10 cases/131 defendants were tried at first instance; 7 cases/62 defendants were tried at appeal.

Since the beginning of the term, 1,304 cases/3,523 defendants have been prosecuted and investigated for corruption crimes (more than double the number of cases and more than triple the number of defendants compared to the first half of the term); 23 key cases have been completed for trial according to the Steering Committee's plan.

Notably, the prosecution agencies have proactively detected, prosecuted, and investigated many large-scale, systematic, and organized corruption and negative cases, both in the state and non-state sectors, causing public outrage.

Typical cases include the case at the Consular Department (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); the case at FLC Group; the case at Tan Hoang Minh Group; the case at Van Thinh Phat Group; the case at AIC Company; cases related to the management and use of land and state assets in Binh Thuan; the case at the Vietnam Register and a number of Registration Centers;...)

In addition, many defendants have been prosecuted who are high-ranking officials, both incumbent and retired, and general officers in the armed forces. Since the beginning of the 13th Congress term, 31 officials under the central management have been criminally prosecuted, including 2 ministers and former ministers; 4 secretaries and former secretaries of provincial Party committees; 5 deputy ministers and former deputy ministers; 7 chairmen and former chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees; 2 assistants to deputy prime ministers and 9 general officers of the armed forces.

Also in the first 6 months of the year, the investigation, prosecution, and trial in absentia of suspects and defendants who were on the run in cases occurring at AIC Company and several localities were conducted, creating a breakthrough in the investigation, prosecution, and trial of corruption and negative cases.