Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said.
The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP.
Wow, when your fraud starts being measured in “percentage of GDP” you know you got too greedy.
According to prosecutors, over a period of three years from February 2019, she ordered her driver to withdraw 108 trillion Vietnamese dong, more than $4bn (£2.3bn) in cash from the bank, and store it in her basement.
That much cash, even if all of it was in Vietnam’s largest denomination banknotes, would weigh two tonnes.
Wow, when your fraud starts being measured in “percentage of GDP” you know you got too greedy.
From a BBC article
Dang, that’s a lotta dong.
She likes dong even more than OPs mom
Let’s not be ridiculous, OP’s mom can handle a lot more dong.
That’s what she said
Ha. Thoroughly nose exhaled. 10/10