Earlier, at the Government’s regular press conference, Lieutenant General To An Xo – spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security said that the local police had searched 32 registration centers and prosecuted 248 suspects for crimes once morest them. name “Bribery broker”; “Give bribes”; “Bribery”; “Forgery at work”; “Production, sale, exchange or donation of tools, equipment, software for illegal use”.
However, up to the present time (February 10), the number of centers being searched and the number of accused being prosecuted has increased much compared to the number announced by Lieutenant General To An Xo at the aforementioned press conference.
According to the Ministry of Public Security, this is an organized corruption case, systematic negative violations, organized throughout from a number of leaders of the Vietnam Register, the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department to the Ministry of Public Security. Director of many registration centers, causing especially great consequences for society.
According to the investigation, some leaders of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department and the Vietnam Registry Department receive monthly and quarterly bribes from a number of registration centers to ignore errors in application documents. license to operate, ignore violations during periodic or irregular inspection and assessment; sign and approve registration codes; hire to write software with the feature of editing test results on emissions and brakes , lights …” – A spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security emphasized.
According to Lieutenant General To An Xo, there is public opinion that the police agency’s search of some registration centers is affecting people. However, in fact, since investigating the case until now, the police agency has not issued a decision or legal document on stopping, suspending or suspending the operation of registration centers… ; confiscate only documents and evidences directly related to the crime.
When the police agency carried out the searches, there were individuals who planned to notify the registration centers nationwide to stop operating in order to use public opinion and put pressure on the police agency. The Ministry of Public Security warned these individuals and this trick did not work.
“Through the above case, the Ministry of Public Security has proposed to the Ministry of Transport and relevant agencies to implement a series of solutions to improve the efficiency of state management of motor vehicle registration activities. It is known that the Ministry of Transport is currently using “high-dose antibiotics” to treat this “disease”. to clean up this activity,” the Ministry of Public Security spokesman stated.
