According to Hanoi City Police, officials of some wards and districts of Hoang Mai have loosely managed, taking advantage of their positions and powers to harass, create a mechanism to ask for and receive money, causing trouble for people with construction needs in the area.
From August 2024 to present, the above people have discussed and agreed to receive a total of VND 920,000,000 from Ms. Mai Thi Chung and many other individuals many times to not conduct inspections of construction order of the works, ignoring the violations of these individuals.
In the case of Ms. Mai Thi Chung and many others, they paid money to ward and district officials to illegally build, raise floors or expand. Those responsible for managing construction in the area took the money and divided it among themselves, ignoring violations.
The situation of building messy bowls is happening everywhere, the urban area is losing its aesthetics and is unsafe due to encroachment of houses due to lax management.
Not to mention, for littered construction, ignoring violations, leading to the risk of fire and explosion, many fires occurred due to construction management and fire prevention and fighting.
If management staff accept bribes to build illegally, how can they not take them away?
A typical example is the mini apartment fire in Hanoi, two former vice chairmen of Khuong Dinh ward (Thanh Xuan district), Chu Xuan Son, were sentenced to 6 years in prison and Pham Tan Anh to 4 years in prison. Nguyen Dinh Quan (former head of the ward construction inspection team) was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Tran Trong Khang (former captain of the Thanh Xuan District Construction Inspectorate) received 3 years in prison...
The verdict analyzed that the next cause of the fire was 7 officials responsible for construction management but were lax, assisting the apartment owner in illegally constructing.
How many apartments have been illegally built by ward and district officials, how many houses have the owners bribed ward and district officials to raise the floors beyond regulations like Ms. Mai Thi Chung?
The answer is that there are still many, but these violations have not been brought to light.
Not to mention large, publicly built projects exceeding the permit of many floors right in the middle of the capital, the 8B Le Truc building is an example. This building has been "cut off", but there are still buildings and houses that are still hidden in the darkness.
Returning to the arrest of 2 chairmen, 1 vice chairman of the ward and some officials of Hoang Mai district, the people are very in agreement and hope that the law authorities will handle it strictly.
Only by strictly punishing damaged cadres can urban construction order be rectify.
