Gov`t to eradicate bribery in trade activities

Hanoi (VNA) – Eradicating bribery in trade activities and between
businesses and State agencies is a major target of the national anti-corruption
strategy recently issued by the Government.

The strategy, adopted for the period up to 2020, aims to wipe out conditions and
opportunities for corruption and monitor the enforcement of the State power to
prevent corrupt behaviours. Other targets to be achieved include improved
institutions, more appropriate punishments and a more equal and transparent
business environment.

To achieve these targets, the strategy put forward five basic solutions, including
increasing the transparency of policy making and law enforcement process;
finalizing economic management mechanisms and building a transparent business
environment. Raising the effectiveness and efficiency of inspection, supervision,
auditing, investigation, prosecution and punishment as well as increasing the
public awareness in fighting corruption are also included in the strategy.

The strategy will be implemented in three stages.

Synchronous measures will be implemented during the first stage from now until
2011 to detect and punish corrupt behaviours, especially big corruption cases.


The second stage, which will last from 2011 to 2016, will expand preventive
measures such as controlling officials and public employees’ property and
income, and review the 10-year implementation of the Anti-Corruption Law for
suitable adjustments. Solutions will continue to be implemented until the end of
the last stage.

Chief Government Inspector Tran Van Truyen said that the Government will focus on
several schemes to increase the transparency of law making; streamline
administrative procedures for 2011-2020 and organise recruitment exams for several
managerial titles on a trial basis.

Truyen said the Government Inspectorate is finalizing legal procedures for State
President to ratify the UN Convention against Corruption. The nation’s
involvement in this convention shows its determination to fight corruption and its
activeness in dealing with the world’s issues, he said.

According to the Government Inspectorate, in 2008 the country detected more than
390 corruption cases, of which nearly 300 cases involving more than 600 people
were prosecuted, a reduction of 44 percent in the number of cases compared to
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