Vo Thi Dung, deputy secretary of the HCMC Party Committee, has been picked to perform the duties of Tat Thanh Cang, the permanent deputy Party chief, during his leave of absence from December 17, 2018 to January 3, 2019.

Vo Thi Dung, deputy secretary of the HCMC Party Committee, who has been assigned to perform the duties of Tat Thanh Cang who is taking an 18-day leave of absence

According to the local media, the HCMC Party Committee’s announcement of Dung's appointment was sent to the municipal People’s Council and the People’s Committee and other relevant agencies to ensure the normal operation of the municipal Party Committee.

Early this month, the Inspection Commission of the Party Central Committee proposed the Politburo and the Secretariat discipline Cang, who is also a member of the Party Central Committee, for his violations and shortcomings.

He was found to have violated the rules of the municipal Party Committee on the management and use of assets at enterprises owned by the HCMC Party Committee. Also, he broke regulations when he decided to approve business cooperation and transfers of projects and land owned by enterprises under the municipal Party Committee.

Cang had also violated regulations when he permitted the official representative of the municipal Party Committee to vote for share sales to strategic shareholders at the HCMC Party Committee’s enterprises.

In 2013, he approved a VND12.2-trillion project, whose investor was Dai Quang Minh Real Estate Investment JSC, to build four main roads in the Thu Thiem New Urban Area and inked a construction contract for these roads.

The property firm, in return, was granted 79 hectares of land in the new urban area to develop commercial and residential projects.

However, Cang had no power to approve investments of that scale. Regulations at the time only allowed the municipal government to approve projects worth up to VND1.5 trillion.

Earlier, city inspectors found he allowed Tan Thuan Investment and Construction Co., Ltd, a business unit of the HCMC Party Committee, to sell 32.5 hectares of land in the outlying district of Nha Be for only VND419 billion.

However, it was not within his authority to approve this sale, according to inspectors, and the approval process was not legal. Having failed to report to the Standing Board of the HCMC Party Committee before the approval of the land sale, he ran the risk of causing heavy losses for the city's Party Committee.

SGT