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Vietnamese tycoon faces scramble to raise billions to avoid death sentence (www.theguardian.com)

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The Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against the death penalty for masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal – though she could still save her life if she can repay most of the funds she embezzled.

Lan, who founded the real-estate developer Van Thinh Phat, was sentenced to death in April for embezzling $12bn (£9.95bn) from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), in a case that shocked the country.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I honestly hope she fails.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

🍽

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hope u like toast...where she gonna find 6bil???

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit 1 points 3 months ago

Can musk buy her?

[–] phoenixz 3 points 3 months ago

So musk has received billions over billions of dollars without giving nearly the results he promised. SpaceX is a shit show, receiving over 3 billion dollar to get us to Mars this year and best they can do is blow up a launch pad to look cool and then explode a banana over the Indian ocean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Can the US do this in like 5 years please?

[–] phoenixz 3 points 3 months ago

How a out 2 months?