Officials from the Government Inspectorate have suggested that much greater efforts are needed if officials are to be cajoled into providing lists of their assets as part of the government’s anti-corruption drive.
Nguyen Tuan Khanh
Nguyen Tuan Khanh, Deputy Director of the Inspectorate Research Institute, highlighted the difficulties in checking and managing the list of inherited assets and said Vietnam should try harder to manage the income of state officials to prevent corruption or otherwise the results will be negligible.
Deputy Inspector General Le Tien Hao said the public and media were not privy to the asset declarations. "I don't know yet how to put this into the law but we definitely can't leave the policy as it currently is," he said.
According to the Government Inspectorate, as of May 31, 995,383 out of 999,416 officials have provided supposedly-complete lists of their assets. However, many people have expressed concern about the accuracy of the verification process as only four officials were found to have provided dishonest statements in an inspectorate sample of 1,225 officials.
Jairo Acuna – Alfaro, UNDP Policy Advisor, in an interview with Lao Dong Newspaper, commented that the asset-declaration list should be shortened.
"The best international practices show that, the fewer officials on the list, the easier to check the accuracy of the declarations," he said
