Gia Lai: For letting accountants embezzle Covid-19 prevention funds, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee was warned

On October 11, the Gia Lai Provincial Party Executive Committee issued a press release on the 13th Conference to resolve work within its authority.

At the conference, the Provincial Party Executive Committee discussed and found that, in his role as Secretary of the Party Delegation, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Gia Lai province, and account holder of the Covid-19 Prevention and Control Fund, Mr. Ho Van Diem failed to check and failed to detect the agency's accountant misappropriating money from the province's Epidemic Prevention and Control Fund for personal use.

Mr. Ho Van Diem - Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Gia Lai province has just been disciplined with a warning (photo TH)

Based on the content, nature, level, consequences, and cause of the violation, according to the Party's Regulations on disciplinary action against violating Party organizations and Party members, the Provincial Party Executive Committee decided to impose a disciplinary warning on Mr. Ho Van Diem.

As previously reported by the Journalist and Public Opinion Newspaper, the Investigation Police Agency of Gia Lai Province has initiated a case, prosecuted the accused and temporarily detained for 4 months Ms. Do Thi Thu Hien, accountant of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Gia Lai Province, to investigate the act of embezzlement of property.

According to the initial investigation, from February 2021 to April 2023, Ms. Hien took advantage of her assigned duties and responsibilities to create fake documents to withdraw more than 3.5 billion VND from the Gia Lai Province Covid-19 Prevention and Control Fund from the account of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Gia Lai Province, opened at the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam ( BIDV ) - Gia Lai Branch.

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/gia-lai-de-ke-toan-chiem-dung-tien-phong-chong-covid-19-chu-tich-uy-ban-mttq-viet-nam-bi-canh-cao-post268203.html