Why are officials under Vietnam’s communist regime rich even though their salaries are not worth much. No matter how many officials, none of them have economic difficulties, they are even very rich. Just being communal officials they can earn billions to buy big houses, nice cars and send their children studying abroad.This regime has created a giant corrupt machinery, in which no one lives honestly. Those who live honestly do not exist in the system. It stinks to the point that today, people know that fighting corruption is nothing more than a game of fighting to gain a piece of the cake of power.
Those who have not been exposed fight those who have been exposed. And so corruption continues like ocean waves, one layer after another jumping up to replace each other. Everyone knows that this government apparatus is corrupt, but it is difficult for anyone to imagine how rotten it is inside. Only when officials are brought down and the state-controlled press is allowed to expose part of the truth, will people be overwhelmed by how terrible the corruption of the officials in this government is.
When the trial comes, the state-controlled media is allowed to expose part of the truth about Hoang Thi Thuy Lan – disciplined party’s Secretary of Vinh Phuc province. Each time she accepted a bribe, she received tens of billions of VND from Hau Phao – the owner of Phuc Son Group. Once, she said “I have something to do, prepare $1 million for me immediately” and raised an index finger of her right hand. Hau immediately directed his subordinates to prepare $1 million to give to her.
In a regime where corruption is so rampant and serious, how can the country “rise up”? And is it certain that Lan is more corrupt than other figures in the apparatus? After all, Lan only engages in “petty” corruption, directly extorting money from businesses. Corruption at higher levels such as policy corruption and power corruption is even more terrible and still exists.
Tran Thai Hung – Thoibao.de
