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The Propaganda Board of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee recently held a press conference on September 1 to announce the dual citizenship of Pham Phu Quoc, according to Vietnamese media.
Ha Phuoc Thang, head of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee office, said that this week the HCM City National Assembly delegation will meet and report to the National Assembly Deputies Working Group, the Permanent Committee of the National Assembly to remove delegates. National Assembly of Mr. Pham Phu Quoc.
For Party management, the organization will be compared to Party regulations to consider the responsibility of Quoc’s party member, Vietnamese media said.
With Mr. Quoc’s CEO position at Tan Thuan Industrial Development One Member Company Limited (IPC), this week city leaders will have the decision to suspend and clarify Mr. Quoc’s responsibilities when working. at the City State Financial Investment Company and at IPC before resigning.
Prior to that, on August 25, Mr. Quoc had a request to resign from the mandate of the National Assembly and at the same time resigned from the post of General Director of Tan Thuan Industrial Development One Member Company Limited (IPC).
‘There is not enough information to assess Mr. Quoc’s assets’
At a press conference on 9/1, Mr. Ha Phuoc Thang stated that the city authorities presented Mr. Quoc to participate in the election for the National Assembly as fully complying with regulations and processes.
Mr. Thang said that the fact that Mr. Pham Phu Quoc has a second nationality but did not report to the organization is “proving not to be exemplary, not to comply with the regulations of the Party and the organization.”
Speaking at the press conference, Mr. Phan Nguyen Nhu Khue, Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Propaganda Committee, also said that this is “something extremely unfortunate.” Mr. Khue explained that city leaders did not shy away from the incident, but had to “be very cautious, consider many sources, inform the higher agency, just check the next step”, when asked if the city is had been delayed in solving the problem.
Also according to Mr. Khue, he is currently ineligible and information to assess Dong Quoc’s assets. The reason is that, although every year, the Party organizations have information that obliges public officials to strictly comply with the wealth declaration, but they have difficulties managing monetary assets, gems or opening accounts in various places.
Mr. Khue also said that it was not due to the “dual citizenship” issue, but he completely denied Mr. Quoc’s contributions.
What does Mr. Quoc explain?
On August 27, 2020, Mr. Pham Phu Quoc received a request explaining the case and informing related units.
In the case report, Delegate Pham Phu Quoc said that his Cypriot citizenship was sponsored by his family from his wife and son after studying for many years in the UK. Quoc also denied spending 2.5 million euros to buy Cypriot citizenship.
In the application, Mr. Quoc explained that the reason he was granted citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus in 2018 is because he has a lot of control over his own matter. Since then, his family wants to sponsor him to live in Cyprus and visit his children.
Previously, the Al Jazeera news agency released a series of investigations that revealed that the passport program of the Republic of Cyprus allows those who invest at least around $ 2.5 million to own a passport in this country, that is, that individual . Become an EU citizen, can travel, work freely in 27 EU member countries and can enter 174 countries without a visa.
Delegate Pham Phu Quoc is on Al Jazeera’s list of foreigners with a Cypriot passport.
Mr. Pham Phu Quoc, 52, from Quang Tri, used to hold the positions of Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Research and Development Institute, General Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Financial Investment Company (HFIC), President of the City Council. member of Ben Thanh Corporation Limited.
On December 4, 2019, Mr. Quoc was appointed by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee as Managing Director of Tan Thuan Industrial Development Company Limited (IPC).
Quoc was elected to the National Assembly for the first time in 2016.
