VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Anh Tuan told correspondents last week that the Ministry has set up a working group to verify information about corruption related to recruitment of public servants in Hanoi.

Hanoi promises to find the truth about “public servant recruitment”

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Anh Tuan.

Tuan said the Ministry would ask the Hanoi People's Committee to instruct the Department of Home Affairs to check the city’s recruitment of public servants, especially at the district level.

The Ministry will also send a working group to examine the recruitment of public servants in Hanoi to verify the information on paying VND100 million ($5,000) to become a civil servant in Hanoi, and to take actual situation to report to the Minister of Home Affairs.

The Deputy Minister said, if violations are detected, the Ministry of Home Affairs would combine with the Hanoi People's Committee to strictly handle them.

He also said that the Ministry of Home Affairs would also inspect the recruitment task in many other localities where have had rumors of corruption. However, Tuan admitted that detecting corruption through inspection is difficult.

"Corruption does not happen at the time of inspection but before the recruitment. This can only be detected by the police’s surveillance," Tuan said.

At the Hanoi People’s Council meeting on December 7, Mr. Tran Trong Duc, Chairman of the Inspection Commission of the Hanoi Party Committee, said that to become a public servant in Hanoi, people have to pay around VND100 million ($5,000). Duc also pointed out that the heads of the Home Affair Divisions of districts are those who did this.

The information is very much of interest by the public.

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