{"id":68072,"date":"2024-12-03T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/vietnamese-tycoon-scramble-raise-billions-avoid-death-sentence-truong-my-lan"},"modified":"2024-12-03T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:15:13","slug":"vietnamese-tycoon-faces-scramble-to-raise-billions-to-avoid-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68072","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese tycoon faces scramble to raise billions to avoid death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truong My Lan must repay three-quarters of $12bn she embezzled from bank in a case that shocked the country<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against the death penalty for masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal \u2013 though she could still save her life if she can repay most of the funds she embezzled.<\/p>\n<p>Lan, who founded the real-estate developer Van Thinh Phat, was sentenced to death in April for embezzling $12bn (\u00a39.95bn) from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), in a case that shocked the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/vietnamese-tycoon-scramble-raise-billions-avoid-death-sentence-truong-my-lan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truong My Lan must repay three-quarters of $12bn she embezzled from bank in a case that shocked the countryThe Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against the death penalty for masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,291,6,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-banking","category-business","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68072\/revisions\/68073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}