Anti-corruption must shift from being in accordance with procedures to being practical

Continuing the program of the 14th National Party Congress, on the afternoon of January 21, on behalf of the Party Committee of the Central Internal Affairs Commission, Mr. Dang Van Dung - Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission - presented a speech with the theme: Resolutely and persistently fighting to prevent and repel corruption, waste and negativity.

Mr. Dang Van Dung stated that corruption is a negative social phenomenon, regardless of political regime and development level.

Corruption, waste, and negativity cause serious damage to public resources; harm the proper operation of the Party and State apparatus; distort justice and social justice; reduce trust, threaten the existence of the Party and the regime.

According to Mr. Dang Van Dung, during the 13th Congress term, for the first time, the investigation, prosecution and trial of embezzlement crimes occurred in the non-state sector and the investigation, prosecution and trial were conducted in the absence of both defendants and defendants fleeing abroad, affirming the strictness of the law and the very high political determination of the Party and State.

"There are no forbidden areas, no exceptions, not only slogans and empty words but have become a vivid reality, recognized and highly appreciated by cadres, party members and people," said Mr. Dang Van Dung.

To promote the fight against corruption, waste and negativity, according to the Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission, it is necessary to thoroughly grasp and seriously and effectively implement 3 requirements, 5 focuses, 3 breakthroughs, with the motto " persistent - Determined - Consistent - Comprehensive - Breakthrough" that General Secretary To Lam has concluded and directed.

Mr. Dang Van Dung said that to shift the focus to prevention and prevention as the main, basic, and long-term goal, it is necessary to strongly shift from "going behind handling" to "going before control", from "doing the right process" to "doing it substantially, having results", from "fighting to deter" to "building to be sustainable", from "testing, handling" to "control, prevention", from "traditional management" to "digital management", taking technology and data as a tool to monitor and detect corruption, waste, and negativity.

At the same time, reduce pre-inspections, increase post-inspections; conduct supervision using artificial intelligence; analyze big data to detect and prevent corruption, waste, and negativity early and from afar, not allowing small violations to accumulate into large violations.

Along with perfecting institutions and laws, it is necessary to increase publicity, transparency, accountability, and effective control of assets and income.

Practice shows that the more public, transparent, the more responsibility for explaining, the more effective the prevention of corruption, waste, and negativity is, there are no empty areas, no dark areas.

It is necessary to develop a set of criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of accountability, first of all, people's satisfaction, this is a key factor in accountability.

Research and perfect the mechanism for filing civil and administrative lawsuits of the People's Procuracy to increase the effectiveness of preventing and handling violations early, not allowing them to be extended to the point of requiring criminal prosecution.

Emphasizing that corruption and negativity are one of the "natural disabilities" of power, the Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission stated that it is necessary to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of power control.

"We must focus on controlling power, preventing corruption, waste and negativity in conjunction with building a truly honest, close-to-people, and-close-to-people, two-level local government apparatus," Mr. Dang Van Dung emphasized.

Mr. Dang Van Dung also recommended focusing on resolving projects and works with difficulties, problems, delays, backlogs, prolongations, risks of loss, waste and surplus real estate and public assets after the reorganization of the apparatus and administrative units.

Urgently specify and institutionalize the Party's policies and viewpoints on handling violations of land laws; on handling violations in cases and incidents in general and violations related to the private economy in particular to unblock resources and promote the socio-economic development of the country.

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