Four Vietnamese Officials Recommended for Discipline Over Serious Violations
Vietnam’s Central Inspection Commission recommended disciplinary action against four officials on November 13, finding that their violations had caused extremely serious consequences. Two former Binh Phuoc officials are also involved in a land management case concerning a property project that was withdrawn in 2022 because the land had been allocated and leased without the required auction of land use rights.
On November 13, the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Inspection Commission reviewed disciplinary reports concerning party members in Lâm Đồng, Đồng Nai and Ho Chi Minh City and recommended that the Party Secretariat take disciplinary action against four officials. The commission found that their violations had caused extremely serious consequences and severely damaged the reputations of party organizations and the localities and agencies concerned.
Those recommended for discipline include Lê Hoàng Lâm, former vice chair of the Binh Phuoc Provincial People’s Council; Huỳnh Anh Minh, former vice chair of the Binh Phuoc Provincial People’s Committee; and Nguyễn Thành Tài, former director of the Binh Duong Provincial Department of Construction. The commission found that the three had violated Party rules and state law while performing their duties, as well as rules governing party members’ conduct and responsibility to set an example. Phạm Thị Trà My, director of the Lâm Đồng Provincial Department of Justice, was also found to have made untruthful declarations and explanations in her party member profile.
Huỳnh Anh Minh while in office.（VietVance）
Lê Hoàng Lâm and Huỳnh Anh Minh are also involved in a land management case. On October 12, Đồng Nai City police opened an investigation into the two men and Nguyễn Công Thuận, a former deputy head of Binh Phuoc’s land management agency. The case concerns land management violations in 2020 at the Mỹ Lệ urban, commercial and services project in Binh Phuoc Province. On October 28, investigators transferred the case file and recommended prosecuting the three; on November 4, police arrested and detained all three suspects.
The Mỹ Lệ project covers nearly 46 hectares and was planned to include about 1,500 homes and villas. In 2022, the Binh Phuoc Provincial People’s Committee decided to withdraw the project because the land had previously been allocated and leased without the required auction of land use rights.
Source: VietVance
