The Office of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a document conveying the direction of Vice Chairman Bui Xuan Cuong to the affiliated departments and branches, requesting to review and provide evidence, objects, and documents related to projects on planting, caring for trees, and urban beautification in the area from 2019 to the end of 2023.

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The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested departments and branches to review and provide evidence, objects, and documents related to tree planting, care, and urban beautification projects from 2019 to the end of 2023. Illustration photo: Nhu Sy

Accordingly, the city government assigned the Department of Construction to preside over and coordinate with the Departments of Transport, Planning and Investment, Finance, State Treasury of Ho Chi Minh City and relevant agencies and units to urgently review and implement in accordance with the requirements of the Investigation Security Agency - Ministry of Public Security; advise, propose and draft documents of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to send to the Investigation Security Agency in accordance with regulations. The deadline for the above units to implement is to submit before May 25, 2024.

This move comes from a recent request from the Investigation Security Agency - Ministry of Public Security to the People's Committees of provinces and cities to review and provide information related to projects on planting, caring for trees, and urban beautification from 2019 to 2023. Specifically, the proposed implementation contents include:

Firstly, the legal basis for the Provincial People's Committee to allocate state budget and implement projects.

Second, the project implementation process from requesting policy, approving funding at all levels to selecting contractors, signing contracts, organizing implementation, acceptance, payment and settlement.

Third, all bidding documents for tree planting and care projects; list of units and individuals under the Provincial and District People's Committees related to project implementation (from budget approval to project payment and settlement).

Fourth, the list of contractors participating in the bidding, winning the bid, and constructing the project; the State budget allocated to each investor to implement the projects; how is this budget source used? Is it in accordance with the law?

Fifth, the project payment accounts of investors and the project payment receiving accounts of contractors, including consulting and construction contractors...

Sixth, project implementation documents: All documents from the time of bidding to acceptance and final payment: statistics of project list, investor, winning bidder, construction, acceptance, final payment unit, bid package value, final payment value; statistics of each advance payment, payment, beneficiary unit, beneficiary account number and inspection and examination records for projects (if any).

The purpose of the request document of the Security Investigation Agency is mainly to serve the work of expanding the investigation into signs of law violations occurring at Cong Minh Green Tree Company Limited (headquartered in Binh Phuoc province) and related individuals and organizations. The People's Committees of many provinces and cities across the country have received the request document and are reviewing and providing information.