From the 26th to the 29th September 2022, a delegation of the State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAV) led by Deputy Auditor General Doan Anh Tho visited the Audit Board of Republic of Indonesia (BPK). This is an activity under the Memorendum of Understanding signed between the two agencies.
Boosting the prevention and fight against corruption in audit activities, strengthening discipline in public service duties of civil servants, public employees and employees of the State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAV), improving audit quality and the quality, efficiency of direction, administration and performance of the assigned tasks of SAV's subordinate units are among the purposes identified in the Program on inspection, examination and supervision of the prevention and fight against corruption in the performance of public service duties which has recently been signed for promulgation by Member of the Central Committee Party, Deputy State Auditor General in charge of SAV, Mr. Ngo Van Tuan.
Currently, corruption is considered a "national problem" by the Party and State. Anti-corruption is the task of the Party, the people and the political system as a whole. Established by the National Assembly, being an independent operation, abiding only by the law, with the legal status of an inspection agency on public finances and public assets, the State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAV) is responsible for corruption detecting and handling as well as preventing losses and wastefulness in the management and usage of public finances and assets.
In the afternoon of October 21, 2022, following the 4th session of the 15th National Assembly, the National Assembly elected Mr. Ngo Van Tuan, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Personnel Committee and Secretary, Party Committee, Deputy State Auditor General in charge of State Audit of Viet Nam (SAV) to hold the position of State Auditor General for the term 2021-2026 with the approval rate of 92.17%.
Code of ethics is one of important elements affecting anti-corruption in public audit. Accordingly, Code of ethics - State Audit Standard No. 30 was signed and promulgated by the Auditor General in 2014. The Code of ethics is considered a basis for improvement of State Auditors’ consciousness and responsibility in observing the regulations on public service ethics associated with proffesional ethics.
On 18th August, 2022, at the Legal Session, the National Assembly Standing Committee reviewed and commented on the project of Law on Anti-Money Laundering (amended)
On the morning of August 22, 2022, at the head office of the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) – 116 Nguyen Chanh, Hanoi, Mr. Nguyen Ba Dzung - Director General of International Cooperation Department (ICD) of SAV had a courtesy meeting with Mr. Ren Varma - the Portfolio Head of Mainland Southeast Asia of Association of Charterd Certified Accountants (ACCA) and other delegates from ACCA
According to the orientation set out by the Leadership of the State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAV), it is planned not to increase the number of annual audits in the period 2023-2025, instead to adjust the audit structures, of which to increase the number of audits on new contents and focusing on new types of audit. Besides, the SAV identifies audit topics and tasks in order to develop a medium-term audit strategy.
Over the past time, along with other auditing contents and fields, the results of environmental audits have made an important contribution to that of the State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAV). Considering that the SAV is to increase the number of environmental audits and improve auditing quality, it is necessary that functional audit units and auditors constantly strive to innovate methods of organizing audits to better meet the requirements.
(sav.gov.vn) Mr. Tran Sy Thanh, Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, was elected to be the new Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee for the 2021 – 2026 tenure upon all participant's agreement at the 8th session of the Hanoi Municipal People’s Council meeting on the afternoon of July 22, 2022.