Chapter IV
HANDLING OF CORRUPT ACTS AND OTHER ACTS OF LAW VIOLATION
Section 1. DISCIPLINARY HANDLING, CRIMINAL HANDLING
Article 68.- Subjects of disciplinary handling, criminal handling
1. Persons who commit corrupt acts defined in Article 3 of this Law.
2. Persons who fail to report on, or denounce corrupt acts which they are aware of.
3. Persons who fail to handle reports on, or denunciations about, corrupt acts.
4. Persons who commit acts of intimidating, taking revenge on, retaliating those who detect, report on, denounce, supply information on, corrupt acts.
5. Heads of agencies, organisations or units who let corrupt acts occur in their respective agencies, organisations or units.
6. Persons who commit acts of violating provisions of this Law or provisions of other relevant law.
Article 69.- Handling of corruption committers
Persons who commit acts of corruption shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of their violations, be disciplined or examined for penal liability; in cases where they are sentenced for corrupt acts and the judgements or decisions have already taken legal effect, they must be sacked; for National Assembly deputies or People's Council deputies, they shall naturally lose the rights of National Assembly or People's Council deputies.
Section 2. HANDLING OF CORRUPTION-RELATED PROPERTIES
Article 70.- Principles on handling of corruption-related properties
1. Competent agencies or organisations must apply necessary measures to recover, confiscate corruption-related properties.
2. Corruption-related properties must be returned to their lawful owners or managers or confiscated for the state funds.
3. The bribe givers who take initiative in reporting thereon before their bribing acts are detected shall have their bribed properties returned.
4. The confiscation of corruption-related properties, the recovery of corruption-related properties shall be carried out by decisions of competent state agencies according to the provisions of law.
Article 71.- Recovery of corruption-related properties involving foreign elements
On the basis of treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a party and under the basic principles of Vietnamese laws, the Vietnamese government shall cooperate with foreign governments in recovering Vietnamese or foreign corruption-related properties and returning such properties to their lawful owners.