Visit palaces, go on yachts… to learn lottery business

From August 2023 to August 2024 alone, the Director of Long An Lottery Company Limited signed a decision approving 2 tourism companies to win 5 bid packages to organize activities of "studying lottery experience and operations in many countries around the world" with a total value of nearly 11 billion VND.

The study locations in the above decisions are in many countries in Europe, America, and Asia.

There would be nothing noisy or scandalous if this were an activity that was very necessary for a business to improve its operations and learn operational and management experience, whether domestically or abroad.

It is worth mentioning here that looking at the program, the destination for the days of learning professional experience of Long An Lottery Company Limited is at places unrelated to business activities and lottery issuance.

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Some of these places include: Palace of Versailles, Eiffel Tower (France), Statue of Liberty or Times Square (USA) and also parks in Taipei, Singapore, Malaysia and even on cruise ships, shopping malls, subway stations...

One must be very observant to realize that the number of "learning experience and professional skills" activities are scheduled in the late afternoon, before dinner time, on a few days in the above-mentioned trip programs.

The cost for one person to participate in this professional learning activity is not small, from 19 million VND/person to 147 million VND/person.

At this point, there is no doubt that the above mentioned tourism programs have been "disguised" and given the noble label of "learning lottery experience and profession".

Not to mention what experience and expertise have been learned, many questions have been raised about the amount of money up to billions of VND that Long An Lottery Company Limited has approved from related bidding packages.

The first question is which personnel are involved in the above “learning” programs, and how many people in the company are involved when the number of participants actually exceeds the current number of personnel of this company.

Another question is how effective are the above-mentioned study programs, organized in a short period of time? How will they be applied? Or are they purely of a "foreign affairs" nature?

Overlapping the above questions is a larger question about the “face” of the money that people spend.

For a private company, spending billions like that is an activity that must have been carefully considered. And if someone else “takes the hit” for them, then the company’s leaders understand very well the philosophy of “free cheese is only found in mousetraps” when they then let their company, their business become a tool, a front for the places and individuals who spent money.

Long An Lottery Company Limited is a 100% state-owned enterprise, a question raised by public opinion is how the above amount of money will be accounted for, in which account. And who will be the one to evaluate the effectiveness and harvest from the "experience and professional learning" trips organized in such a hasty manner.

Meanwhile, the team of people who bring in the main revenue for Long An Lottery Company Limited are mostly poor people with unstable incomes. They work hard every day with lottery tickets, rain or shine, but they are determined not to let the tickets get wet, hoping to earn even 1,000 VND in profit on the lottery tickets. Does the company "pay attention" to them?

For a long time, the story of traveling under the guise of studying activities has been mentioned many times, with not only businesses but also many state agencies being called out and named when having these activities. But everything is still the same, perhaps because there is a lack of strong enough sanctions to prevent studying and exchanging professional activities from being tarnished as a cover for "foreign affairs" or, as many people say, a cover for corruption.

This time, the story of traveling under the guise of studying is called Long An Lottery Company Limited.

Source: https://congthuong.vn/tham-cung-dien-choi-du-thuyen-de-hoc-tap-nghiep-vu-xo-so-346015.html