The expression “One person is an official his/her clan will get benefits” appeared in feudal times, but is still true today.
In Vietnam, the President’s salary is only about $700/month, while those who work as provincial officials are much certainly lower. However, even though the regime officials only receive the starving salary, they are still willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy the positions.
A member of Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly is a position without any power but to accept the decisions that the rulign Communist Party has decided at its plenums. However, in the past, Ms. Chau Thi Thu Nga had to spend a terrible amount to buy this position. Nga told the court that she spent VND30 billion ($1.5 million) to become NA’s member. So, what is this position worth that Ms. Nga accepted to spend such a large amount of money?
Mr. Pham Sy Quy, Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra’s younger brother, built a villa covering more than 8,000 square meters of land. The online community has been buzzing about this story for a while. Government Inspectors were involved, but things did not go anywhere. That property was still not investigated, although Mr. Quy said that he sold brooms to build a mansion. A kind of answer like challenging public opinion.
The salary of a director of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment is only about $500/month, but building a mansion of millions of dollars is still considered a normal thing in Vietnam. Because even if the authorities were involved, other officials also have large villas.
Or like the story of Minister of Public Security To Lam eating beef inlaid with gold, worth thousands of English pounds, while his salary is only about 500 pounds/month, is proof that Communist officials become rich with their own starving wages.
Building a house, eating lavishly is the right of each person, if that person uses the property made by their labor. However, the officials who were found to have built huge mansions and ate lavishly, they only did one job, which was to work as state officials with a starving salary. Just using a simple inference, the extractive and corrupt actions of Communist officials also show up.
Recently, in the rubber-stamped parliament, Ms. Vu Thi Luu Mai, Deputy Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly, said that the salary of Vietnamese civil servants is about VND10 million/month, while in Thailand it is VND56.7 million/month, Malaysia is VND29 million/month, Cambodia is VND17 million/month. That is reality. If the income was only from salary, then all the officials would have left their positions and run technology motorbike taxis. However, in reality, a lot of people spend billions of Vietnamese dong to work as regime’s officials.
The intention of the Communist Party is to feed the apparatus with corruption. Because if they want to feed the officials with salary, then they have calculated living wages for each position already. Maintaining this institution and maintaining a series of holes, so that all the officials to corrupt. Corrupt officials will find a way to protect the regime and maintain the status quo.
For example, To Lam, currently, the Ministry of Public Security is spending up to $4.3 billion a year, in addition, the Communist Party also gives the Minister of Public Security the right to arrange provincial and provincial police chiefs. Privileges such as these that allow the Minister of Public Security to get bribery and corruption from different sources.
In fact, what people know is just a grain of sand compared to an entire desert. Revealing the scene of him eating gilded beef, revealing the image of his daughter studying in London was just an accident. Every official tries to hide it as a habit of thieves. They hide what they steal.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
