The Government Inspectorate has just issued a Notice of the Inspection Conclusion on the compliance with policies and laws for the Long Thanh International Airport Construction Investment Project Phase 1.
The Inspectorate determined that the implementation of procedures for the investor to approve the project, the capacity conditions of the Project Management Board (PMB), the capital source for component project (DATP) 2, DATP3; the implementation of Package XD01, Package XD02 under DATP2 and Package 5.6, Package 5.10 under DATP3 still had shortcomings and violations.
Notably, Package 5.10 under DATP3, the Government Inspectorate said:
8/10 contractors in the Vietur Consortium used advance money to deposit for term savings (total deposit amount: 936,020 million VND; deposit interest: 10,654 million VND) not for the purpose of using advance money as agreed in Contract 5.10 and legal regulations; the contractor could not provide documents related to the use of advance money (worth 5,584 million VND) as agreed in Contract 5.10.
The investment project to build Long Thanh airport phase 1 has a total investment of 109,111,742 million VND, including 4 component projects (DATP), project implementation time: 2020 - 2025. The scale and time were later adjusted but basically completed in 2025.
The investment objective is to build a project with 2 runways, 1 passenger terminal and synchronous auxiliary items with a capacity of 25 million passengers and 1.2 million tons of cargo per year.
Regarding the noteworthy recommendation, in the inspection conclusion notice, the Government Inspectorate stated that it would forward information to the Ministry of Public Security for consideration, investigation, and handling according to the provisions of law for a number of contractor transfer contractors and ACV investors who violated regulations.
At the same time, the Government Inspectorate transferred this Inspection Conclusion to the Ministry of Public Security for consideration of investigation and handling of violations in contractor selection and other violations in the bidding packages mentioned in the Inspection Conclusion related to criminal cases being investigated by the Investigation Police Agency of the Ministry of Public Security (if any) and issues related to important national projects and works under the authority and tasks assigned by the Prime Minister.
