Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy Nguyen Huy Tien has just reported to the National Assembly on the work of the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy at the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly.
New prosecution of 1,027 cases of corruption and position crimes
The Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy said that in 2024, the crime situation continued to be complicated and increased compared to the same period in 2023.
Among them, many types of crimes with new methods and tricks, organized activities, hiding under the guise of businesses, using information technology, especially in the fields of: Bidding, land, finance, banking, education, petroleum, resource exploitation...
Notably, 1,027 new cases of corruption and official crimes were prosecuted (an increase of over 17%). Authorities continued to detect, prosecute, and investigate many major cases, with particularly serious and complicated crimes.
Many cases involve ministries, branches, and localities, with close, sophisticated collusion between state officials and businesses in the fields of land management, resource and mineral exploitation, basic construction investment, electricity and petroleum trading.
For example, violations of regulations on resource exploration and exploitation; violations of accounting regulations causing serious consequences; smuggling occurred at Thai Duong Group Joint Stock Company, Vietnam Rare Earth Joint Stock Company and related units.
Or the case of Violating accounting regulations causing serious consequences, Giving bribes, Receiving bribes, Abusing positions and powers causing serious consequences occurred at Phuc Son Group and related units.
The case of Abuse of position and power while performing official duties occurring at the Ministry of Industry and Trade and provinces and cities was also reported by name.
The case of Violating regulations on management and use of state assets causing loss, waste, and lack of responsibility causing serious consequences at Xuyen Viet Oil Trading, Transport and Tourism Company Limited was also named...
Crimes against judicial activities increased by nearly 25%
Another noteworthy content mentioned by the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy is that 76 new cases of crimes against judicial activities were prosecuted (an increase of nearly 25%). In which, mainly related to acts of bribery, abuse of position and power to appropriate property, embezzlement of property...
The Supreme People's Procuracy's investigation agency has discovered many serious violations of the law in judicial activities and accepted and investigated 105 cases/204 defendants (including 74 cases/138 newly accepted and prosecuted defendants) to strictly handle them according to the provisions of the law.
Specifically, in the case of an Investigator, an Investigation Officer of the Investigation Police Agency of Ha Long City Police (Quang Ninh Province) received a bribe of 1.3 billion VND to help the defendants get out on bail.
Or the case of Nguyen Van Bi, an enforcement officer of the An Giang Province Department of Civil Judgment Enforcement, who collected money from the person subject to enforcement, embezzling 608 million VND for personal use...
According to the report of Chief Justice Nguyen Huy Tien, the Investigation Agency of the Supreme People's Procuracy has accepted and investigated 55 cases/115 defendants who were former investigators and investigation officers of the Public Security sector (old number 11 cases/39 defendants; new number accepted and prosecuted 41 cases/76 defendants; number restored 3 cases) to handle the crimes of: Receiving bribes; taking advantage of positions and powers while performing official duties; abusing positions and powers to appropriate property; forgery in work; using torture; falsifying case files, incidents...
In addition, the Procuracy discovered a number of violations and shortcomings of civil servants and prosecutors, and the Supreme People's Procuracy's Investigation Agency initiated an investigation into 4 cases/10 defendants who are civil servants of the Procuracy for the crime of Receiving bribes.
The Supreme People's Procuracy's investigation agency has accepted and investigated 11 cases/13 defendants who are civil servants of the Court for the crimes of: Receiving bribes; abusing position and power to appropriate property; falsifying case files and incidents.
At the same time, 18 cases/21 defendants were accepted and investigated, including 6 old cases/7 defendants, 11 new cases/13 defendants, and 1 case/1 defendant who was a civil servant of the Civil Judgment Enforcement Agency for the crimes of: Embezzlement of property; abuse of position and power to appropriate property; lack of responsibility causing serious consequences.
Of these, there are 4 cases/4 defendants being investigated for the crime of abusing position and power to appropriate property; 6 cases/7 defendants for the crime of embezzlement of property and 1 case/1 defendant for the crime of accepting bribes.
The number of bribery cases increased more than 3 times, most of the violations involved people in authority.
Lam Dong Province Chief Inspector Nguyen Ngoc Anh was expelled from the Party for accepting bribes.
Inspector General: Transferred to investigation agency for consideration and handling of 154 cases and 125 subjects
Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra: 571 officials and civil servants were disciplined
Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/vien-truong-vksnd-toi-cao-diem-ten-nhieu-vu-dieu-tra-vien-nhan-hoi-lo-2332478.html
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