Ho Chi Minh City, April 21, 2025 (AFP) - Vietnam tycoon's jail term cut to 30 years in $17-bn money laundering case

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2025-04-21

A Vietnamese property tycoon who was jailed for life in a $17-billion money laundering case had her sentence cut to 30 years on appeal Monday after she claimed what happened was "an accident". Property developer Truong My Lan had already lost a challenge against the death penalty in a separate case in which she was found guilty in April last year of stealing money from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) and fraud amounting to $27 billion. The appeal co......

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