Vietnamese information minister suspended

HANOI –Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang on Monday signed a decision on the suspension of Truong Minh Tuan from his position as the minister of information and communications, Vietnam News Agency reported. 

Under the decision, Tuan was suspended due to his wrongdoings, and the Political Bureau under the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee had imposed a party disciplinary measure against him. 
On July 18, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc gave a warning to Tuan as a disciplinary measure for his law violations at the ministry. 

Tuan, a member of the central committee, was also relieved from his post as secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Information and Communications for the 2016-2021 term. 

According to the Political Bureau, Tuan must bear responsibility for the violations and wrongdoings committed by the ministry's party committee during the 2011-2016 term when he was serving as a member of the ministry's party committee and deputy minister of the ministry. 

He violated the principle of democratic centralism and working regulations, showing a lack of responsibility and lax in leadership when directing the implementation of a project on purchasing 95 percent of shares at a private television company AVG by state-owned telecommunications firm MobiFone. 

He also signed decision on the ministry's approval of the AVG-MobiFone project, as well as a number of related documents that ran against regulations, including documents beyond his assigned duty. Enditem 
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