General Thuoc: "The Party's fight against corruption is no longer a forbidden zone"

As an Army general, now hearing that Police General Phan Van Vinh, a former National Assembly delegate, a Hero of the People's Armed Forces, and the former Director General of the General Department of Police - Ministry of Public Security, was prosecuted and temporarily detained for 4 months to investigate the crime of "Abusing position and power while performing official duties", Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Thuoc, former Commander of Military Region 4, when asked about the incident, replied that he was very sad to hear that Mr. Vinh was arrested.

"We cannot help but do it because if we want the Party to survive and develop, and gain the people's trust, then the flaws in the Party, the higher the position, the more severely they must be punished" - Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Thuoc expressed.

The indictments and temporary detention orders for Mr. Phan Van Vinh were the basis for the decision to prosecute the criminal case of "using the Internet to commit acts of property appropriation, organizing gambling, gambling, illegal trading of invoices and money laundering occurring in Phu Tho and a number of provinces and cities", related to the former Director of the High-Tech Police Department Nguyen Thanh Hoa and the defendants Nguyen Van Duong (then Chairman of the Board of Directors of High-Tech Security Development Investment Company Limited - CNC) and Phan Sao Nam (former Chairman of the Board of Directors of VTC Online).

General Thuoc said that the incident further strengthened people's trust in the Party's determination to prevent and fight corruption, its determination to self-rectify, and to clean up the Party apparatus, making the Party truly a Party of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Considering that a person like Mr. Phan Van Vinh used to be a National Assembly delegate, had many achievements but is now caught up in the money cycle, this downfall is the clearest manifestation of moral and ideological degradation, self-evolution, and self-transformation.

“The Party has launched the fight against corruption, so I believe that the Party will carry it out to the end. Anyone, whether a general, colonel, Politburo member, or Central Party Committee member... who fails to maintain their qualities and leads to self-evolution and self-transformation, will be severely punished,” said Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Thuoc.

According to Lieutenant General Nguyen Quoc Thuoc, through the fact that President Tran Dai Quang signed the decision to strip the title of People's Police, the Phu Tho Provincial Police Department's security investigation agency issued a decision to prosecute the accused, issued an arrest warrant and temporarily detained Mr. Phan Van Vinh for 4 months, which will make the police force stronger. Arresting people in the force should not reduce the prestige of the force. If we do not prevent degraded and self-transformed subjects like Mr. Vinh and Mr. Hoa, the police force will weaken.

“When the police and army are weakened, the regime will also be weakened. Therefore, the police force’s strong internal struggle is a positive sign of strengthening the strength of the sector, the Party, and the regime,” General Thuoc said./.