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, the Government Inspectorate said that Article 44 on Property and Income verification activities:
1. Property and income verification activities are carried out according to the following procedures:
a) issue a decision to verify assets and income and establish an asset and income verification team.
b) Requesting agencies, organizations, units and individuals to provide information about the assets and income of those subject to declaration.
c) Request the verified person to explain their assets and income.
d) Proceeding with asset and income verification.
d) Report the results of asset and income verification.
e) Conclusion of asset and income verification.
g) Submit and publicize the Conclusion of asset and income verification.
2. The Government shall detail this Article.
Regarding this content, the Government Inspectorate said that it has changed the name of the Article from " Asset and Income Verification Procedure" to " Asset and Income Verification Activities" to cover all the contents specified in the Article.
At the same time, it is necessary to supplement regulations assigning the Government to specify in detail the activities of asset and income verification to overcome current limitations and shortcomings in asset and income verification such as: there is no on-site verification and inspection process where the assets are located; the scope of information and documents related to the assets and income of the declarant has not been clearly defined, so this activity has been implemented inconsistently and unsynchronized in the past time, so the effectiveness is low.
The draft Law also clearly states that in recent times, the work of detecting and handling corruption has been directed and implemented methodically, synchronously, drastically and effectively, creating a breakthrough in corruption prevention and control.
However, in addition to the achieved results, the implementation of the Law on Anti-Corruption has encountered some shortcomings and limitations.
Some of the Party's policies and guidelines on corruption prevention and control have not been promptly institutionalized into law. Mechanisms, policies and laws are still not synchronous, not thoroughly resolving practical issues; some legal provisions that have not kept up with the development of society have been taken advantage of by subjects to commit acts of corruption, conceal, transform, and dispersate corrupt assets, making it difficult to detect, handle corruption, and recover corrupt assets.
Regulations on asset and income declaration are not complete, regulations on asset and income control are still in many ways of understanding, implementing inconsistently and confusingly, encountering many difficulties in implementation, and not high efficiency.
The work of inspection, supervision, audit, investigation, prosecution and trial of corruption in some fields and in some localities is not very effective, the handling of some corruption cases is not timely and not serious; the recovery of corrupt assets is still limited.
