The 10-member committee is headed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Addressing the session, State President Nguyen Minh Triet said the fight against corruption and wastefulness has yielded encouraging results during the past years, winning great public support. He asked the committee to guide all agencies and localities in preventing and fighting corruption and wastefulness and promptly deal with outstanding cases.

PM Dung stressed that the fight against corruption, negative phenomena and wastefulness was a long-term task and the common cause of the whole political system. From now to the end of the year, he said the committee will urge ministries and agencies to work out legal documents in accordance with the Government's Programme of Action to implement the Anti-corruption Law and decrees on property declaration and the giving and receiving of gifts.

In particular, he said the committee will instruct the Supreme People's Procuracy, the Supreme People's Court, the Ministry of Public Security and relevant agencies and localities to focus on resolving corruption cases of public concern. They include the Ministry of Transport’s Project Management Unit 18 (PMU18) graft scandal, the fraud and property appropriation by Nguyen Lam Thai which involved some local post offices; the power abuse and bribery of government inspectors at projects run by the Vietnam Petroleum Corporation (PetroVietnam), and the fraud and property appropriation by Nguyen Duc Chi relating to the Rusalka project in central Khanh Hoa province.

VNA