Hanoi (VNA) – The CommunistParty of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Inspection Commission has proposedthe Politburo and the CPV Central Committee expel two former senior officialsfrom the CPV, the commission announced on September 30.

They are Nguyen Bac Son, former member of the 10th-tenure PartyCentral Committee and former deputy head of the Party Central Committee’sCommission for Information and Education; and Truong Minh Tuan, member of the12th-tenure Party Central Committee, deputy head of the PartyCentral Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, and formerSecretary of the Party Civil Affairs Committee and former Minister of Informationand Communications.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission made the proposals during its39th session which was convened in Hanoi from September 25-27.

Both Son and Tuan had been prosecuted and detained for investigation into theirroles in the case of telecommunication corporation MobiFone purchasing a 95percent stake of the Audio Global JSC (AVG).

During the meeting, the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission alsolooked into violations of the Standing Board of the Party Committee of theVietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex).

It concluded that the Standing Board has shown a lack of responsibility andslackened its leadership, supervision and inspection, letting the group violatethe Party’s regulations and the State’s laws on the personnel work, capital andasset management and use, petroleum business activities, equitisation,restructuring and State capital divestment and the implementation of someconstruction projects, causing serious consequences as well as huge money andproperty losses to the State.

Bui Ngoc Bao, former member of the Standing Board of the Party Committee of theCentral Business Bloc, former Secretary of the Petrolimex Party Committee, formerChairman of the Petrolimex Board of Directors and former Petrolimex GeneralDirector, bears the main responsibility for violations and wrongdoings of theStanding Board of the Petrolimex Party Committee.

The commission also defined the responsibility of other Petrolimex officialsfor the above-said violations and wrongdoings.

Such violations have negatively affected the prestige of the Party organisationand Petrolimex, it said, noting that the officials must be disciplined.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission considered disciplinarymeasures and proposed the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat decidedisciplinary measures against the Standing Board of the Party Committee of thecentral coastal province of Khanh Hoa for the 2010-2015 and 2015-2020 tenures, theParty Civil Affairs Committee of the provincial People’s Committee for the2011-2016 and 2016-2021 terms and some provincial officials.

It also proposed the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat impose disciplinarymeasures on officials of the northern mountainous provinces of Hoa Binh and HaGiang for their violations and wrongdoings in organising the national highschool exams in 2018.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission decided to expel Truong QuyDuong, former Director of Hoa Binh General Hospital, from the Party for hislack of responsibility causing serious consequences in a deadly medicalincident in the hospital in 2017./.