Senior officials of Thai Nguyen, Kien Giang expelled from Party
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on March 15 chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat to discuss disciplinary measures against two senior officials of Thai Nguyen and Kien Giang provinces.
Colonel Nguyen The Anh, member of the Party Committee of Kien Giang province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on March 15 chaired a meeting ofthe Party Central Committee’s Secretariat to discuss disciplinary measures against two senior officials of Thai Nguyen and Kien Giang provinces.
Consideringproposals by the Party Central Committee's Inspection Commission, the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat perceived that whileserving as member of the Party Committee of Thai Nguyen province, Secretary ofthe Party Committee and head of the province’s Industrial Zones Authorityduring 2013 - 2019, Phan Manh Cuong, who is currently member of the provincialParty Committee’s Standing Board and Secretary of the Party Committee of Thai Nguyen city, violated the principles on Party organisation andactivities along with working regulations, broke the regulations on the thingsParty members must not do, lacked sense of responsibility, showed lax leadership,lacked examination and supervision, and committed many wrongdoings infinancial, budgetary, asset, and land management and use.
Cuong’swrongdoings resulted in “very serious” consequences; caused monetary and asset lossesto the State; stirred concern among cadres, Party members, and people; andnegatively affected the prestige of the Party organisation and himself. He alsodid not voluntarily admit his wrongdoings and shortcomings, according to theSecretariat.
Themeeting also looked into the case of Colonel Nguyen The Anh, member of theParty Committee of Kien Giang province, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee and commander of the province’s border guard force.
The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat noted while serving as deputy director of the department for drug and crimeprevention and control at the Border Guard High Command, Deputy Chief of thePermanent Office of the National Steering Committee against Smuggling, Trade Fraud,and Counterfeits, member of the Party Committee of Kien Giang, and ViceSecretary of the Party Committee and commander of the province’s border guardforce, Anh violated the principles of democratic centralism and workingregulations; ignored self-improvement; shown degraded political virtue,morality, and lifestyle; accepted bribes; infringed the rules on the thingsParty members must not do; broke the Party’s regulations and the State’s lawson personnel affairs, financial management and use, and the combat againstcorruption, negative phenomena, smuggling, and trade frauds.
The wrongdoingsby Anh resulted in “very serious” consequences, caused monetary and asset lossesto the State, and led to “very negative” impact on the prestige of the Party organisation,the border guard force, and himself.
Based on the officials' violations and the Party's regulations on handling violated party members, theParty Central Committee’s Secretariat decided to expel Cuong and Anh from the Party./.
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Colonel Nguyen The Anh, member of the Party Committee of Kien Giang province (Photo: VNA) 
