Vietnam Sentences Real Estate Tycoon Truong My Lan To Death In Its Largest-Ever Fraud Case: Massive Fraud Amounting To 3% Of GDP

Huffington Post via AP ^ | 04/11/24 | ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL

[DesertRhino]

those 75 or older are exempt, and officials convicted of corruption charges can be spared if they pay back at least 75% of the profits they illicitly obtained

Sooo... she caused 27 billion in losses. So she comes up with 20 billion and she’s home free!

[catnipman]

“Nothing of this scale can happen without government and bureaucratic collusion.”

indeed ... and dozens of lower-level co-conspirators were convicted as well ...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

How about a government official getting the death penalty, no matter how many lives their crimes destroyed?

I wholeheartedly agree with that.

[Freest Republican]

Good point.

Jon Corzine offers his two finger applause.

[Angelino97]

You know, say what you will it is completely impossible for a billionaire to get the death penalty except in extremely few nations on earth. Most of which, had they greased the right palms would not be executing them.

In some countries, bribes won't work because the authorities can simply take all your property after killing you.

That's how it worked in Bolshevik Russia. And I suppose that's how it works in many African kleptocracies today.

[DannyTN]

Is she Thinh or is she Phat?

[Varsity Flight]

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/companies/how-van-thinh-phat-scb-fraud-moved-44b-4689625.html

Is this like our Congress? RICO

Trump 2024

[Cen-Tejas]

.....arguably, despite villainous people like LBJ, McNamara, Rusk, Westmoreland and others..........the US won the Vietnam war in at least one major respect and that is that Capitalism prevails over communism in Vietnam.

The communist’s so far have retained police power and control. Hopefully, they will follow through and execute this evil woman. If they do, Communism can make one point over our system by claiming that “at least we can arrest, put on trial and execute/punish to the maximum our crooks while you guys cannot even arrest your crooked, bribery soaked, corrupt, traitorous President” much less imprison or execute him.

[Scrambler Bob]

it would be completely impossible for a billionaire to get the death penalty here, no matter how many lives their crime destroyed.
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Unless that billionaire did not do any crime.