The Politburo and the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat convenes on Tuesday. — Photo nhandan.vn

HÀ NỘI — The Politburo and the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on Tuesday discussed and issued disciplinary measures for some violating Party organisations and Party members, including those of HCM City and Vĩnh Phúc province.

After considering proposals from the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission, the Politburo and the Secretariat perceived that the Standing Board of the HCM City Party Committee in the 2010-2015 tenure violated the principle of democratic centralism, the Party’s regulations and working rules, lacked the sense of responsibility, relaxed leadership and direction, and lacked examination and supervision.

As a result, many violations and shortcomings occurred in the state management of land, finance and asset management and use, investment, planning and construction in the city and lasted for several different periods, thus causing serious consequences and risk of very big losses to the State’s money and asset as well as social resources, and letting many serious and particularly serious criminal cases happen.

Many Party organisations, officials, and Party members were disciplined and subject to criminal punishments. Meanwhile, public concern was stirred and the reputation of the Party organisation and the municipal administration eroded.

Lê Thanh Hải, former Politburo member, former Secretary of the municipal Party Committee, and former Secretary of the Party delegation to HCM City and former Chairman of the municipal People's Committee, along with Lê Hoàng Quân and Nguyễn Thành Phong, former members of the Party Central Committee, former Deputy Secretaries of the municipal Party Committee, and former secretaries of the Party delegation to HCM City at and former chairmen of the municipal People's Committee, violated the principle of democratic centralism, the Party’s regulations, the State’s laws, the regulations on the things that a Party member is banned from doing and the responsibility of setting good examples, and working rules, lacked sense of responsibility, and relaxed leadership and direction.

Hải's wrongdoings enabled many violations and shortcomings to occur at the Party organisation and administration of HCM City, causing very serious consequences; risking very big losses and wastefulness to the State’s money and assets; leading to many criminal cases, including very serious ones; resulting in many officials and Party members infringing legal regulations, disciplined and subject to criminal punishments; stirring public concern; and causing very negative impact on the reputation of the Party organisation and administration of the city.

Meanwhile, Quân and Phong’s wrongdoings enabled many violations and shortcomings to occur, causing serious consequences; risking very big losses and wastefulness to the State’s money and assets; leading to many serious and extremely serious criminal cases; resulting in many officials and Party members infringing legal regulations, disciplined and subject to criminal punishments; stirring public concern; and eroding the reputation of the Party organisation and administration of the city.

The Politburo and the Secretariat concluded that the Standing Board of the Vĩnh Phúc Provincial Party Committee in the 2015-2020 tenure violated the principle of democratic centralism, the Party’s regulations and working rules, lacked the sense of responsibility, relaxed leadership and direction, and lacked examination and supervision.

Those wrongdoings enabled the Party Civil Affairs Committee of the provincial People’s Committee and the provincial People’s Committee in the 2016-2021 tenure to commit many wrongdoings and shortcomings during the leadership, direction, and organisation of the projects/bidding packages related to the Advanced International JSC (AIC), its “ecosystem” and the FLC Group JSC, as well as several land use projects, causing serious consequences risking very big losses to the State’s money and assets, stirring public concern, and eroding the reputation of the local Party organisation and administration.

The Standing Board of the Vĩnh Phúc Party Committee in the 2020-2025 tenure violated the principle of democratic centralism, working rules, the principle of criticism and self-criticism, solidarity and unanimity within the Party, committed wrongdoings in personnel affairs, showed declining strength, lacked the sense of responsibility, examination and supervision and had lax leadership and direction, leading to many violations with extremely serious and difficult-to-remedy consequences and stirring public concern.

The Standing Board, with the direct involvement of the permanent members of the provincial Party Committee, let businesses manipulate and deeply intervene in socio-economic activities and personnel affairs. The permanent members showed a serious loss of solidarity while many officials and Party members, including some leaders, revealed degradation in political thought, morality and lifestyle, took bribes, and were subject to discipline and criminal punishments, undermining the reputation of the local Party organisation and administration, according to the Politburo and the Secretariat.

They also looked into the wrongdoings by Dương Văn Thái, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and head of the National Assembly deputies’ delegation of Bắc Giang province; Mai Tiến Dũng, former member of the Party Central Committee, Minister, Chairman of the Government Office; Phạm Thái Hà, member of the Standing Board of the Party Committee at and Vice Chairman of the NA Office, and assistant to the NA chairperson; Nguyễn Văn Khước, member of the provincial Party Committee, member of the Party delegation to Vĩnh Phúc and Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee; Lê Tuấn Hồng, former member of the provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Party Committee of Lương Tài District, Bắc Ninh Province; and Hồ Văn Điềm, member of the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Delegation at and President of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front Committee of Gia Lai Province.

They showed degradation in political thought, morality and lifestyle, seriously violated the Party’s regulations and the State’s laws while performing their duties and fighting corruption and misconduct, infringed the regulations on the things a Party member is banned from doing and the responsibility of setting good examples, thus causing very serious consequences, stirring public concern and leading to very negative impact on the reputation of the Party organisations and administrations of the localities and state agencies, the Politburo and the Secretariat said.

The Politburo decided to issue warnings to the Standing Board of the HCM City Party Committee in the 2010-2015 tenure, the Standing Board of the Vĩnh Phúc Provincial Party Committee in the 2015-2020 and 2020-2025 tenures, along with Lê Hoàng Quân and Nguyễn Thành Phong.

It proposed the Party Central Committee expel Dương Văn Thái and Mai Tiến Dũng from the Party and consider a disciplinary measure for Lê Thanh Hải.

Meanwhile, the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat decided to expel Phạm Thái Hà, Nguyễn Văn Khước, Lê Tuấn Hồng and Hồ Văn Điềm from the Party.

The Politburo and the Secretariat asked relevant agencies to impose timely administrative disciplinary measures that match the Party-related ones. — VNS