One of the World’s Richest Women Sentenced to Execution

They couldn’t even wait for the show trial to reach its scheduled conclusion. In a shock early verdict, a Vietnamese court sentenced one of the world’s wealthiest women to be executed after the country’s biggest ever fraud trial.

The lifestyle of Vietnam’s nouveau riche elite was exposed during a devastating trial in Ho Chi Minh City that convicted Truong My La Lan of stripping the country’s biggest bank huge sums of money in a scam worth $27 billion.

The trial created a sensation as police-escorted convoys of 20 prison vehicles, sirens blaring, carrying 68-year-old Lan and her cohorts between the courthouse and the prison where they were held.

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