On the afternoon of September 23, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the 2025 audit plan of the State Audit Office (SA).
At the meeting, Chairman of the National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee Le Quang Manh said that the auditing agency highly appreciated the results of the implementation of the Party's resolutions and policies, the State's policies and laws, and the organization of the State Audit's activities in 2024.
However, the audit report also frankly pointed out a number of shortcomings in each specific area of work of the audit agency.
In particular, compared to the task of law-making in 2024, in the first 8 months of the year, the State Audit Office has only issued 21/62 legal documents and management documents under its authority, reaching 32% of the plan.
Notably, with the rather large scale and scope of the audit, in the task of auditing anti-corruption, the State Audit Office has only recommended consideration and direction of one case with signs of law violation. This is an "inappropriate" result, according to the auditing agency.
At the meeting, Ms. Le Thi Nga - Chairwoman of the National Assembly's Judicial Committee - said that in recent times, the State Audit has performed its duties and powers with great effort and achieved many results.
According to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the work of preventing and combating corruption in auditing activities through internal detection and handling in the past time has not discovered any negative or corrupt cases, which is commendable, but it is necessary to thoroughly educate the staff to strictly comply with the regulations on preventing and combating corruption in internal auditing activities.
Speaking at the meeting, Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said it is necessary to clarify the causes and responsibilities of agencies, organizations and individuals in the slow implementation of the audit recommendations.
The most important issue of auditing is that once the conclusion is made, the ministries and local branches must seriously implement and report in accordance with the provisions of the State Audit Law. Resolving the "post-audit" issue is the most important issue.
Explaining further, Mr. Ngo Van Tuan - General Auditor of the State Audit Office said that the State Audit Office pays great attention to preventing corruption and negativity. The industry has set the criterion of public service ethics as number one, always implementing anti-corruption within the industry.
The number of cases transferred to the investigation agency is small because the nature of the audit is preventive and deterrent, with a time limit of 45 days based on the records provided by the units.
“We are the input material for the investigation agencies to evaluate. Every year, we provide more than 400 documents and in 2023, we will provide more than 800 documents to the Inspection Committee and the investigation agency,” said Mr. Ngo Van Tuan.
According to this leader, during the audit process, if there are signs of clear violations of the law or corruption, this agency will immediately transfer them to the relevant authorities.
