Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said all ministries, agencies and localities must consider corruption prevention and detection their central, regular and constant task.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung at the session. (Source: VNA)
PM Dung, who is also Head of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption, made the emphasis while chairing the committee’s 17th session in Hanoi on April 25.

Together with the strict, open and transparent settlement of corruption-related cases, all ministries and localities should focus on corruption detection and prevention, especially inspection and supervision work, he said.

He also stressed the need to effectively implement anti-corruption measures through the building and completion of institutions, as well as raising the responsibilities of leaders, the role of Party cells and each Party member in preventing and combating corruption.

It is necessary to strictly observe regulations concerning openness and transparency in the operations of agencies and organisations while strengthening supervision mechanisms of people and socio-political organisations for the fight against corruption, waste and negative cases, he added.

The PM also noted that authorised agencies should step up popularisation and education about the corruption fight as well as the settlement of corruption cases, especially serious and complex ones.

It was reported that the fight against corruption has seen positive developments, targeting the open and transparent operation of agencies and organisations, the assets and incomes of civil servants, and the creation of codes of conduct and professional ethics.

In the first quarter of this year, inspections detected wrong spendings with a total sum of over VND32 trillion.

Cities and provinces nationwide concluded 310 inspections in economic and social fields.

The country took proceedings in 55 cases and prosecuted 67 cases relating to corruption, representing year-on-year respective increases of 12 percent and 34 percent.

In the second quarter of this year, the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption will speed up the implementation of Project 137 on investigating corruption prevention into training programmes, and urgently issue documents guiding the use of the anti-corruption reward fund.

The committee will focus on steering the discovery, inspection, prosecution and judgement of corruption cases, especially serious and complex cases.

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