On Dec 10, the Hanoi City Council elected 5 vice-chairmen of the City People’s Committee for the 2016-2021 term.
Notably, 5 vice-presidents in the previous term of Hanoi were transferred or dismissed.
Specifically, the City People’s Council removed Mr. Nguyen Van Suu, Nguyen The Hung, Nguyen Quoc Hung, Ngo Van Quy, and Mr. Nguyen Doan Toan from the position vice chairman. The last one was assigned by the Standing Committee of Hanoi City Party Committee to hold the position of Head of the Mobilization committee.
Mr. Nguyen Trong Dong, Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen, Mr. Chu Xuan Dung, Mr. Ha Minh Hai, and Mr. Duong Duc Tuan were elected as vice chairman of the City People’s Committee.
Thus, after consolidation, Hanoi City for the 2016-2021 term has a Chairman (Mr. Chu Ngoc Anh) and 6 vice chairmen, of which 5 new ones were elected and Mr. Nguyen Hong Son – former deputy minister of justice who was rotated as vice chairman of City People’s Committee in 2014.
Shortly thereafter, a number of journalists in Vietnam expressed surprise at the case of Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen, 45 years old, from Hanoi, PhD in public administration, bachelor of economics, and bachelor of foreign languages.
From July 2017 to now, Mr. Quyen has held the position of director of Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment.
On December 5, the Front website under the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, in the section on People Volunteers, reposted the article “Why questions related to Director of Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment,” the original record is “Cong Minh / KTNN.”
This article reads: “At the 17th Congress of the Party Committee of Hanoi City for the 2020-2025 term, Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen was elected to the Executive Committee of the City Party Committee. This caused a stir in public opinion as Mr. Quyen has violated the standards and criteria of the party members.”
But until today, the Front page has deleted this post.
In September 2019, the Hanoi City Party Committee Inspection Committee said that it was conducting a review of individuals and collectives related to the case of Nguyen Manh Quyen’s mother and sister, Director of Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment, illegally allocated land in Quoc Oai District, Hanoi.
This case involved Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen’s family members who were illegally assigned land in Quoc Oai during the time he was the party district secretary and the chairman of the District People’s Committee.
The Hanoi City Party Committee Inspection Committee said that Mr. Quyen had “actively mobilized” Ms. Ta Thi Huyen (biological mother) and Ms. Nguyen Thi Loan (biological sister) to return the land, hand over the illegally assigned land to H. Quoc Oai managed, is “a very positive factor, important extenuating circumstances.”
On December 2, the Education & Times page posted “Director of Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment: Committing serious mistakes but still promoted.”
This article criticized: “Through research, the reporter of the Education & Times newspaper is known that at the 17th Congress of the Party Committee of Hanoi City, term 2020-2025, 71 members of the Party Executive Committee were elected, including Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen – Director of the Department of Planning and Investment of Hanoi, who was pointed out by the competent authority many serious mistakes.
Not only in Hanoi, in the personnel project, before the election of the Executive Committee of the Party Committee of provinces and cities, but the person introduced to the Executive Committee of the Party Committee also must “not let relatives and acquaintances take advantage of their positions and powers to get profit.” This criterion has also been emphasized in the “membership standards at all levels for the term 2020-2025” set forth in the Politburo’s Directive No. 35-CT / TW.
After the results of the 17th Congress of the Party Committee of Hanoi City, the 2020-2025 term, elected 71 members of the Executive Committee, the public opinion, especially in Quoc Oai, was very frustrated when Nguyen Manh Quyen – Director of the Department of Planning and Investment of Hanoi City is named in the elected list. The reason for that, Mr. Quyen committed many mistakes during the period as the Secretary of the District Party Committee, cum Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quoc Oai district, including the illegal land allocation to his mother and sister.
People said that, with the illegal act of helping relatives to have land, Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen violated the standards and criteria of the Commissioner level “not letting relatives and acquaintances take advantage of their positions and powers to make a profit.”
Specifically, reviewing the denunciation letter, the Hanoi city authorities concluded the issuance of red books and land allocation to Ms. Ta Thi Huyen (73 years old, Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen’s mother) and Ms. Loan ( Mr. Quyen’s sister, living at the same address as Ms. Huyen) is against the law. It is worth mentioning that the above behavior was carried out in the period when Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen was holding the position of District Party Secretary cum Chairman of Quoc Oai District People’s Committee. “
But today the article was deleted.
Just October 2020, the newspaper Thanh Tra – the agency of the Government Inspector – published “Director of the Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment and major mistakes.”
This article writes: “Many serious systematic, large-scale, publicity, long-term and long-term serious mistakes with the risk of causing damage to the State continuously occur in the fields, localities in charge by Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen, former Secretary of the District Party Committee and Chairman of Quoc Oai District People’s Committee, who is currently the Director of the Department of Planning and Investment.”
The article criticized: “It is worth mentioning that many serious mistakes in the field and locality managed by Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen stem from ‘tearing apart’ the legal regulations, even ‘ignoring the ears’ opinion of the central ministries and agencies to advise Hanoi city or do it yourself.
During the period of Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen in the role of manager, mistakes in many projects were discovered and concluded by competent agencies to be of serious nature and risk of loss to the State.”
Also in October, the Monetary Security page quoted the Hanoi Inspector’s report on Dong Quang high-tech agricultural ecological garden house project, Dong Quang commune, Quoc Oai district.
Accordingly, the Hanoi City Inspector proposed: Report to the Standing Committee of the Party Committee to ask why the Standing Committee of Quoc Oai District Party Committee and Quoc Oai District People’s Committee in 2016 (when Mr. Nguyen Manh Quyen held the position of Secretary cum Chairman of District People’s Committee) had directed to continue the allocation of state land not in accordance with the direction of the City People’s Committee.
Recently, Hanoi city has changed many leaders.
In September 2020, after Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung was disciplined and arrested, the Politburo assigned Minister Chu Ngoc Anh to be the chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee.
Earlier, in January 2020, Hanoi Party Committee Secretary Hoang Trung Hai was warned by the Politburo. As a result, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue was assigned as Hanoi Secretary from February up to now.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
