The Ministry of Justice has just published the appraisal dossier of the Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Anti-Corruption.
According to the draft submission of the Government Inspectorate, the amendment and supplementation of a number of articles of the Law on Anti-Corruption aims to promptly institutionalize the Party's policies and guidelines on corruption prevention and control.
Ensure compliance with the Party's guidelines and policies and the legal system on innovation and reorganization of the apparatus of the political system, implementing the 2-level local government model.
Overcoming the limitations and shortcomings of the law on corruption prevention and control, meeting the requirements of practice, contributing to improving the effectiveness of corruption prevention and control, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of State management.
Notably, the Government Inspectorate proposed to amend the content of assets and income that must be declared to a rate of 150 million VND instead of 50 million VND as in current law.
This amendment is expected to be consistent with socio-economic development conditions.
Accordingly, assets and income must be declared containing precious metals, precious stones, money, valuable papers and other assets with each asset worth VND 150 million or more.
The draft law stipulates that additional declaration is carried out when the person subject to declaration has fluctuations in assets and income in a year with a value of VND300 million to VND400 million or more. The declaration must be completed before December 31 of the year with changes in assets and income.
The asset and income control agency monitors changes in assets and income of those subject to declaration through analysis and evaluation of information from the declaration or from other sources of information.
In case the discovery of assets and income in the year with fluctuations of VND 400 million or more but the person with the obligation to declare does not declare, the asset and income control agency shall require that person to provide and supplement relevant information. In case of property and income fluctuations, the origin must be explained.
The Government Inspectorate said that many opinions suggested that 400 million VND is too low and not suitable for the current price period and socio-economic conditions.
The draft law based on the provisions of the law on money laundering prevention is also inappropriate because this is only a regulation for one money transfer that needs to be controlled (suspicious transactions). While a person can make many transactions in a year with a price of 400 million VND or more.
Therefore, this opinion proposes that the draft law stipulate the level of assets and income with fluctuations in the year from 1 billion VND or more to suit actual conditions.
In addition, the draft law proposes that the Central Inspection Committee control the assets and incomes of those under the management of the Politburo and the Secretariat.
Party committees and agencies at the Central level and Party committees directly under the Central level control the assets and incomes of those who are required to declare assets and incomes under their management authority.
The Government Inspectorate controls the assets and income of people holding positions from the head of the department and equivalent or higher working at ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government and other agencies, units and organizations established by the Government and the Prime Minister.
The Government Inspectorate controls the assets and income of heads and deputy heads working at organizations decided by the Government and the Prime Minister to establish or approve the operating charter; chairmen of the Board of Directors, Vice Chairmen of the Board of Directors, general directors, deputy general directors, members of the Board of Directors, members of the Board of Members... state-owned enterprises managed by ministries and ministerial-level agencies; people with the obligation to declare assets and income working at the Government Inspectorate.
