The Vietnamese Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has taken effective steps to curb corruption across the country and as a result of which two senior party officials namely Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long and Party Chairman of Hanoi Chu Ngoc Anh were expelled after they were found implicated in the $172 million COVID-19 test kit kickbacks. It was reported that they had received kickbacks from with Viet A Technology company which was involved in providing COVID- 19 test kits and in connivance with the two senior party officials, the kit was overpriced and distributed among the public. Even the deputy minister of science and technology has been found complacent in this as well. Dot Lo which in Vietnamese means anti-corruption drive has led to arrests and prosecutions of many individuals and officials as well as employees of private companies. The anti-corruption drive has acknowledged that there has been more than 11,000 cases of economic fraud and kickbacks which has brought focus on more than 1400 suspects.
Vietnam’s anti-corruption war
