Perfecting policies on anti-corruption measures

On the afternoon of October 15, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Anti-Corruption.

Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee Hoang Thanh Tung presents the Report on the review of the draft Law. Photo: NA

Presenting the Draft Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Anti-Corruption, Government Inspector General Doan Hong Phong emphasized the need to promulgate this Law and said that the draft Law focuses on amending and supplementing the following issues: Firstly, perfecting policies on corruption prevention measures including: assessment of corruption prevention and control work; agencies controlling assets and income; declaration of assets and income and verification of assets and income; Secondly, perfecting policies on detecting corruption including: authority of inspection agencies in inspecting cases with signs of corruption; receiving and handling feedback and denunciations on acts of corruption; Thirdly, perfecting policies on applying information technology, digital transformation, building a national database on controlling assets and income to prevent corruption; Fourthly, unifying and synchronizing legislative techniques, ensuring feasibility and conformity with relevant legal documents.

The Draft Law has amended, supplemented and completed 16 contents in 16/96 articles of the 2018 Law on Anti-Corruption. Specifically, amending and completing regulations on asset and income control agencies ensures clear division of authority, consistency and compliance with the Party's regulations on asset and income control according to Decision 56-QD/TW dated February 8, 2022 of the Politburo and Regulation No. 296-QD/TW dated May 30, 2025 of the Central Executive Committee.

According to the provisions of Clause 4 of the draft Law amending and supplementing Article 30, the agencies controlling assets and income include: Inspection Committees of Party Committees at the grassroots level and above; Government Inspectorate; Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuracy, State Audit, Office of the National Assembly, Office of the President, National Assembly Delegation Work Committee, Central agencies of socio-political organizations; Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government and Inspectorates of provinces and centrally run cities.

In addition, the regulation increases the value of assets that must be declared from 50 million VND to 150 million VND; increases the value of assets and income that must be declared additionally when there are fluctuations during the year from 300 million VND to 1 billion VND to suit the current socio-economic development conditions and prices that have changed a lot compared to 2018.

The draft Law assigns the Government to specify the responsibilities, order and procedures for verifying assets and income for those subject to declaration according to the annual plan.

Presenting his views on the review of the draft Law, Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee Hoang Thanh Tung said that the Committee agreed with the necessity of promulgating the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Anti-Corruption (PCTN) for the reasons stated in the Government's Submission. The draft Law dossier is eligible to be submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and comments.

The Committee on Law and Justice found that, in addition to the issues expected to be revised and supplemented, there are still a number of other contents that need to be further studied and revised to fully institutionalize the Party's policies and overcome limitations and shortcomings in anti-corruption work such as: Recovery of lost and misappropriated assets in criminal cases of corruption and economic crimes; including declaration and control of declaration of assets in the criteria for evaluating cadres, party members and the level of task completion of agencies, organizations, units and heads; handling of untruthfully declared assets, additional assets of unexplained origin; on accountability...

In particular, there are contents that can be institutionalized in the draft Law such as "including the declaration and control of personal income tax declaration into the criteria for evaluating cadres, party members and the level of task completion of agencies, organizations, units and heads" in Conclusion No. 105-KL/TW. For some other issues, it is possible to study the principled regulations and assign the Government to specify in detail.

Chairman of the Committee for Law and Justice Hoang Thanh Tung said that the content of the draft Law is consistent with the Party's policies and guidelines, ensuring constitutionality, consistency with the legal system and compliance with relevant international treaties to which Vietnam is a member. In addition, he suggested that the Government continue to review to ensure consistency, especially for a number of draft laws related to anti-corruption, to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the 10th Session.

Regarding the Party's Asset and Income Control Agency, Clause 1, Article 30 of the draft Law amending and supplementing the provisions on the Party's Asset and Income Control Agency is as follows: "The Inspection Committee of the Party Committee at the level directly above the grassroots level controls the Asset and Income of Party members who are cadres under the management of the Party Committee at the same level and Party members who specialize in Party work or have positions in advisory agencies to assist the Party Committee according to Party regulations".

The majority of opinions of the Committee on Law and Justice agreed with this provision and believed that the addition of this provision was necessary to ensure the institutionalization of Regulation No. 296-QD/TW and Decision No. 56-QD/TW. However, there were opinions that the Law should only provide principles, not detailed regulations on the functions and tasks of Party agencies. Determining which Party agencies have the authority to control Party members' personal assets is under the Party's sole authority.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/thoi-su/hoan-thien-chinh-sach-ve-cac-bien-phap-phong-ngua-tham-nhung-20251015173427823.htm