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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 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

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

More of this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

Finally some good fucking news!

Now if only we could do this to blackrock execs in burgerland

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

sucks to be a criminal billionaire in a socialist-ish country

[–] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

From a BBC article

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Dang, that's a lotta dong.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Great for them! Happy for you Vietnam 🙂

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

Vietnam continues to win.

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

1 down, 2780 to go.

Let's keep the kill streak going!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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