Vietnam real estate tycoon sentenced to death in fraud case

Truong My Lan, a 67-year-old Vietnamese property magnate, has received a death sentence after being convicted of embezzlement, bribery and banking violations in a scheme that defrauded the Saigon Commercial Bank of more than $12 billion over a 10-year period.

[superiorslush]

She’d get 5 years of house arrest in the US

[other-terrestriallifeform]

Too bad these American companies get away with worse, they receive bonuses here

[roguesample]

If our laws were like this I don’t know if we’d have any legislators, lobbyists, or Wall Street goons left to put on trial after a few weeks

[thekeen]

Just imagine how many of these same people we have in the US but do nothing about it...

[stacyblanton]

We need to fix America, Wall Street would be a dead street.

[Con-Doe]

Good thing Goldman Sachs was not based in Saigon - circa 2011

[Maxumized]

Here in the US, she’d get a job offer as a CEO with a multimillion $ salary

[dlew]

That government won't take years and years to carry out the sentence either.

[CV-dlhj]

If we did the same in the US we would run out of burial land.

[DavidxBoyd]

Imagine if Enron, Worldcom, HealthSouth and Arthur Anderson were tried in Vietnam instead of America

[Leo-zv]

They need that kind of law for American financial crimes

[defund-the-media]

Meanwhile in the US we sympathize with criminals

[datthebigboss]

If they did that here people would think twice about doing crime

[tobeboom]

Life would look a lot different in the US if we handled real estate fraud like this, I guarantee.

[Chulitatr]

Welp, at least that country holds wealthy criminals accountable... Unlike here in the US of A.

[robbiecoomer]

In United States she would of got two days in jail and a $200.00 fine .

[BardiaFD]

If this was US they’d be walking free next day

[cornpop]

How dare she be a bigger crook than the politicians..

[mikespencer]

In South Africa she would be made a member of parliament.

[annarbaba]

No one is dared to defraud anyone after this sentence. Honesty will prevail!