Vietnam: Officials and public employees screening violators from administrative sanctions shall be forced resignation

10:26, 14/02/2020

This is a notable content specified in Decree No. 19/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government on inspection and sanctioning of violations arising from enforcement of laws on administrative penalties.

Specifically, according to Decree No. 19/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, disciplinary sanctions in the form of forced resignation shall be imposed upon officials and public employees committing one of the violations arising from the enforcement of laws on handling of administrative violations, including:

- Retaining violation cases suspected to have criminal signs so that they must be subject to administrative sanctions;

- Forging and falsifying records of administrative violations or documents stating application of administrative sanctions;

- Opposing and obstructing persons performing inspection tasks, threatening or intimidating persons providing information and documents to inspection authorities or inspection teams, and causing trouble to inspection activities;

- Abusing positions and powers to harass, demand or receive money or property of violators; tolerating violators, screening them from administrative sanctions and constraining them from exercising their rights when imposing administrative sanctions.

View more details at Decree No. 19/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from March 31, 2020.

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