Vietnam will review existing anti- corruption legal documents and establish provincial steering committee on anti-corruption from now to the end of 2007, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Monday.
The Vietnamese government would also complete a strategy on anti-corruption till 2020 and submit it to the National Assembly, the country's top legislature, for approval, said Truong Vinh Trong, deputy prime minister and vice chairman of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption.
The government will step up investigations and bring to court those accused of corruption, particularly major cases from 2006, and promote communication campaigns among government officials and civil servants.
It was important to have a comprehensive legal system and behavior code as well professional ethics for civil servants and public employees, as the people were the ground troops in the anti- corruption struggle, he said.
Slow settlement of major corruption cases and limited retrieval of embezzled money were among obstacles holding Vietnam back, he said, referring to slow work between government administrations and judicial agencies.
This, added to the fact that the reporting system was not strictly followed and the low morals of some senior officials, meant the battle was not advancing as fast as it could, he said.
In the first half of this year, 347 acts of corruption were uncovered, of which 215 cases involving 500 people were brought to court, said the newspaper. Compared with the same period last year, corruption cases exposed increased by 41 percent and the number of people brought to court rose by 43 percent.
Source: Xinhua
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