Acts of corruption and misconducts in law-making in Vietnam

Acts of corruption and misconducts in law-making in Vietnam (Picture from the internet)

On June 27, 2024, the Central Executive Committee issued Regulation 178-QD/TW on power control and preventing, combating corruption, and misconducts in law-making in Vietnam.

Act of corruption in law-making in Vietnam

- Intentionally presiding over or advising the issuance of legal normative documents that reflect the interests of specific groups or sections; intentionally delaying the suspension, abolition, replacement, amendment, supplementation, or promulgation of new legal normative documents for the sake of specific group interests.

- Receiving money, assets, material benefits, or other benefits in any form to issue or influence competent agencies, organizations, or individuals in law-making activities to promulgate legal normative documents reflecting specific group interests.

- Bribing, intermediating bribery to authorities in law-making activities to promulgate legal normative documents reflecting specific group interests.

- Abusing assigned duties and authorities in law-making activities to intentionally mislead the media with non-objective and untrue information regarding policy content in law-making activities for personal gain.

- Abusing power, colluding with enterprises, organizations, or individuals to capitalize on law-making activities.

- Other corrupt acts, group or sectional interests in law-making activities as stipulated by the Communist Party and the State law.

(Article 5 of Regulation 178-QD/TW of 2024)

Misconducts in law-making in Vietnam

- Intentionally disobeying principles, authorities, procedures, and formalities in law-making activities or intentionally concealing or dishonestly reporting to competent authorities about practical situations, feedback contents from agencies, organizations, individuals, or intentionally adding new contents to draft documents different from approved policies or contents without reporting to competent leaders, leading to legal normative documents breaching constitutionality, legality, or consistency with the legal system, or having many loopholes and being exploited to cause damage to the State, organizations, or individuals.

- Neglecting responsibility, loosening leadership, and management in law-making activities; covering up, intentionally not reporting, not handling corrupt acts, negative phenomena, group interests, and sectional interests in agencies, organizations, or localities directly managed by oneself in law-making

- Misusing financial regulations, public assets, assets contributed, funded, or aided by organizations, enterprises, or individuals in law-making

- Colluding, conspiring with hostile forces, reactionaries, and opportunistic, discontent political elements to propagandize ideologies and viewpoints contrary to the Communist Party's policies and regulations in law-making activities; collecting and transferring to foreign countries or other organizations or individuals contrary to the legal regulations, information, and documents related to law-making activities; exploiting the reflection, feedback, and social criticism in law-making activities to sabotage the Communist Party and the State.

- Other negative acts in law-making activities as stipulated by the Communist Party and the State law.

(Article 6 of Regulation 178-QD/TW of 2024)

More details can be found in Regulation 178-QD/TW which comes into force in Vietnam from June 27, 2024.

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