Topic: Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed a Decision adjusting and supplementing estimates on investment and development expenditures from the central budget in 2022 for ministries, central agencies, and localities. Nearly VND3 trillion ($126 million) was cut from nine ministries and central agencies and two localities, to supplement estimates for the Vietnam Development Bank and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed Decision No. 1113/QD-TTg from the Prime Minister assigning State budget capital to the socio-economic recovery and development program. VND147.138 trillion ($6.2 billion) will go to ministries, central agencies, and localities according to sectors and fields specified in Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 from the National Assembly.

With disbursement of public investment capital having reached only 39.15 per cent of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister in the first eight months of the year, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed Resolution No. 124/NQ-CP dated September 15 on key tasks and solutions to boost disbursement over the closing months of 2022.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed Decision No. 941/QD-TTg on the National Action Plan on the prevention and combatting of money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of weapons of mass destruction for the 2021-2025 period. In particular, the Plan requires research into the field of virtual assets to prevent financial crime, in accordance with international standards and Vietnamese practice.