The Party chief chaired a meeting of the standing board of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption as head of the Committee in Hanoi on October 1.
He said six serious and complicated cases, involving intentional economic mismanagement, irresponsibility, bribe giving and taking, swindling, embezzlement, money-laundering, and power abuse, must be judged in the first instance from now to the end of 2016 and in Q1 2017.
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They relate to the Agribank Printing, Trade and Service Company; the Vietnam Waterway Construction Corporation; the Que Vo Textile Joint Stock Company and the Bac Ninh development support fund (now the Bac Ninh transaction office of the Vietnam Development Bank); the Vinashin Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd (Vinashinlines); the Dien Bien Phu transaction office of the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank)’s HCM City branch; and the Ocean Commercial Joint Stock Bank.
Meanwhile, six other cases with appeals lodged must be expeditiously dealt with at the appeal courts.
At the meeting, he also lauded anti-corruption efforts by relevant bodies, especially in the settlement of the case involving Pham Cong Danh, ex-Chairman of the Vietnam Construction Bank, who committed wrongdoings and violations of banking rules that caused losses of over VND9,000 trillion (US$404 million).
