Vietnamese senior officials urged to clear fame
As many as six senior officials, including two members of the
Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC), have
been ordered to make reports on their responsiblities for issues
relating to the crime gang of Truong Van Cam notorious as "Nam
Cam".
The request came from the Party's politburo and secretariat. The
first official to self-criticize will be Bui Quoc Huy, member of the
CPVCC, deputy minister of Public Security and former director of
the Ho CHi Minh City Police, according to a report of the daily
Veitnam News Thursday.
The second official, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security
Hoang Ngoc Nhat, will have to explain why he signed the decision
to release the crime boss Nam Cam before the end of his prison
term in 1997.
The other four officials are Do Nam, head of the Public Security
Ministry's Department for Prison and Rehabilitation Center
Management of the country; Pham Sy Chien, former deputy
director of Vietnam's Supreme People's Procuracy; Tran Mai
Hanh, CPVCC member, former deputy chairman and former
general secretary of the Vietnam Journalists' Association, and
former general director of Voice of Vietnam Radio; and Le Thanh
Dao, deputy director of the Party Commission for Mass
Mobilization, and former director of the Supreme People's
Procuracy.
Vietnamese Public Security Ministry's party committee, the
politburo appointed party board of the Supreme People's
Procuracy,and Ho Chi Minh City's party standing committee were
also forced to do self-criticism from June 18-19.
Notorious criminal Nam Cam was arrested on December 16 last
year when the police launched a major crackdown on organized
crimesyndicates and social vice in Vietnam's largest city Ho Chi
Minh City. Nam Cam, who was widely notorious as crime boss in
Ho Chi Minh City, was charged with murder, gambling and usury.
People's Daily - June 20, 2002.
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