Death Sentence Upheld for Tycoon in Record $12.5 Billion Fraud Case
A Vietnamese court has upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, rejecting her appeal against convictions for embezzlement and bribery in a fraud case involving over $12 billion. This amount represents nearly three percent of Vietnam 's 2022 GDP, marking the country's largest recorded financial fraud.
"Please reconsider and reduce my sentence," she asked the court. According to Vietnamese law, Lan could escape the death penalty if ... outside the State Bank of Vietnam in Hanoi.
In her handwritten appeal of more than five pages, Lan said the death sentence was “too severe ... through creating world-class projects for Vietnam, I have traded and sacrificed a lot ...
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