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Vietnam sentences real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in its largest-ever fraud case (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm usually not fond of the death penalty, but these are the kind of people it should be reserved for.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Meh, could have just as easily seized her assets and prison forever

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

iirc the death sentence is just being used as a motivation for her to return all the stuff she got from corruption and if she does it'll be downgraded to life in prison

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