Nguyen Duc Chung case: lessons for Vietnamese officials?



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Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung (left)

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Nguyen Duc Chung (left) during a signing ceremony for a cooperation contract with a foreign partner on October 26, 2019, when he was chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee.

The former chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, Major General Nguyen Duc Chung, has just been proposed by the Central Inspection Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam to the Party Politburo to expel its members, according to the media. Vietnamese Orthodox on Thursday.

On December 3, 2020, a news item on the website of the Communist Party of Vietnam reported that in a session of the Central Inspection Committee headed by the head of this powerful agency, Mr. Tran Cam Tu, chaired for two days on 1 and December 2 in Hanoi, the Committee examined the irregularities of Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung.

The bulletin shows the opinion of the Disciplinary Committee with Mr. Chung, who is a member of the Central Committee of the Party, former Undersecretary of the Party Committee, former Secretary of the Party Committee, former Chairman of the Hanoi City People’s Committee. Currently on trial, detained and suspended from party activities:

“The Central Inspection Committee found that: Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung has very seriously violated the Party regulations, the state laws on the protection of state secrets, violating the regulations on what the Party members cannot do. , adversely affecting the reputation of party organizations and individuals.

“Based on the Party’s regulations for disciplining Party members, the Central Committee for Economic Affairs proposed to the Politburo and the Central Committee that they consider the expulsion of Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung from the Party.”

The report recalls that 53-year-old Nguyen Duc Chung was accused by the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of the People of Vietnam for “appropriating documents of state secrets with a penalty of 10 to 15 years in prison, according to Article 337 of the Penal Code 2015 “and emphasized that Mr. Chung’s case, along with three other defendants in the same case, will be” tried in secret “on December 11.

“In addition to this case, Mr. Chung is also being investigated for liability related to the case that occurred in Nhat Cuong; violating regulations on the management and use of state assets, causing losses and waste in the Hanoi People’s Committee and units related, “said the VCP’s online newspaper.

When powers “collide” with each other and to whom does it submit?

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Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung left a mark when he went to Dong Tam Commune and spoke with local people on April 22, 2017

From Saigon, lawyer Tran Quoc Thuan, former permanent vice president of the Vietnam National Assembly Office, told BBC News Vietnamese:

“I think that here are the surface manifestations, as well as the sunken manifestations of the fact, because I only mean the case of” internal “electromechanical engineering, and then it became such a case, then see that those who are in power, especially in this industry, they can use all their power and relationships to protect themselves.

“That is why it has become more and more complicated and it is a fact and that reality is happening not only in Hanoi with Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung, but it is also happening in many other places, and it is already happening. become a common cause of causes that many cases do and deal with are misplaced, in place, lack of transparency, publicity and rigor.

“By the way, I must add that there are many cases, including those in this industry and also in other branches, they are high or rather high officials, officials, but since the beginning of the XI The Central Committee of the Party is not resolved, but now until the end of the XII legislature, when the legislature is about to end, it will be resolved.

“So where is the responsibility of those who handle the keyword XI, then from the beginning of the XII period until now? Where was not resolved, so now many cases are talking about the new congress. Get up, like the case of Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung, the case of Mr. Nguyen Van Binh, etc., in my opinion they are stories where people still shout the slogan “make people fall short, make mistakes, make them timely. “.

“Those slogans are very good, but it is clear that the campaign that people call” firewood, burn the oven “has not yet been done, and as clear as I say, it is a mechanism, an institution that Power is everywhere, but it is not managed to a great extent, and through the phenomena seen in recent years, sometimes those powers collide and have great consequences for the people. Even this country has to suffer and some industries have their prestige affected and they also suffer ”.

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Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung (right) accompanies Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a cultural event in early February 2016 in Hanoi.

From the National University of Hanoi, researcher Le Van Sinh added:

“In the past, many generals and senior officials of the Ministry of Public Security (many generals honored as Heroes of the Armed Forces), along with many officials of this branch, have been prosecuted and imprisoned.

“Some people commit crimes of corruption, those who commit crimes of appropriation of national secrets, others protect gangs of gangs, protect gambling lines, etc.

It is a painful reality, which has lost the strength and integrity of a force known as “brake and shield” that protects the solemnity of the law.

“I believe that when crime spreads to this force, it is a danger from within a political institution.”

From Hanoi, Mr. Nguyen Huu Vinh, a former security commander who worked in Vietnamese public security for many years, commented:

“The fact that many high-ranking officials in the Vietnamese Public Security sector have been treated in many ways in recent years, in the first place, is the result that they have too much power, in a system that is given too much power. .

“On the contrary, from professional capacity to cultural and spiritual life, the moral foundation, they are lacking, they are less cultivated, polished, or just” educated “in formidable ways. Stay awake.

“That situation is vividly displayed every day, people know it, but the press hardly (can or dares) reach it.

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Nguyen Duc Chung attended an external economic relations event at the French Embassy in Hanoi on July 16, 2019.

Former prisoner lawyer Le Quoc Quan expressed his opinion on this matter:

“In my opinion, the crime of corruption in Vietnam is very high, regardless of the industry and level. In the police sector, the volume is higher because they live in crime, coexist with crime and solve criminal problems for them. Many people have indigo, no matter how big or small.

In recent times, there has been a campaign to ‘burn the oven’ and it seems that the Central Government is strongly emphasizing the crime of corruption, which is why many high officials of Public Security and from this industry are disciplined. Of course.

“What has to be outlined here is that the power control mechanism must be transparent and the law must be strict with everyone. For officials of this regime, with the situation and nature of the regime and institution. Like now, just hit every hit, not just any industry. “

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