The Ministry of Justice is appraising the draft Decree replacing Decree 130/2020 on controlling assets and income of people with positions and powers. The draft is drafted by the Government Inspectorate.
In the Submission, the Government Inspectorate said that in order to concretize the provisions of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Anti-Corruption on handling violations against people who are concluded to have declared assets and income untruthfully, the draft Decree stipulates: People who are obliged to declare but declare untruthfully, explain the origin of assets, increased income, and the cause of reduced assets untruthfully, according to the nature and severity, they will be handled by one of the forms of reprimand, warning, and dismissal.
Compared to the provisions of Decree No. 130/2020/ND-CP, the draft Decree supplements the form of disciplinary reprimand for people who are obliged to declare but declare untruthfully, explain the origin of assets, increased income, and untruthful reasons for asset decrease.
The Government Inspectorate said that this regulation aims to ensure that the handling of people who are obliged to declare is soft and appropriate to the nature and severity of violations.
Regarding the viewpoints and principles of building the Decree, the Government Inspectorate said that the regulations in the Decree must be consistent with the actual conditions, the economic, political, and social foundation of the country and must create favorable conditions for asset and income declarants, simplify administrative procedures; strengthen the application of information technology, digital transformation in asset and income declaration, publicizing and controlling assets and income.
The Decree must contribute to solving the existing problems, limitations, and inadequacies that are being posed in the practice of corruption prevention and control in general and asset and income control in particular; ensure that regulations are easy to implement and easy to evaluate; asset and income control must be focused and prioritized in accordance with the context of implementing the current 2-level local government; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management and corruption prevention from an early and remote stages.
