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[–] underisk@hexbear.net 43 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In the April conviction, she was found to have orchestrated financial fraud amounting to $12.5 billion for illegally controlling a major bank allowing loans that resulted in losses of $27 billion, according to state media reports.

I don't know what "illegally controlling a major bank" means or how she pulled it off but that's what AP news says about it.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~~Sounds like you give yourself sweetheart deals on mortgages and then the money line goes up. Then you pay your friend for landscaping and shit to keep it in the family. You essentially put on creative mode on Rollercoaster Tycoon. Then some pencil pusher says that if they were doing legit banking based on their historical returns they could have made X amount of dollars given a Y input [1].~~

~~[1] I made it the fuck up~~

They included Chu Nap Kee, Lan’s husband, who was sentenced to two years for money laundering.

In addition to obtaining property by fraud, Lan was also convicted of money laundering and illegal cross-border money transfer charges, according to state-run media.

She was accused of raising $1.2 billion from nearly 36,000 investors by issuing bonds illegally through four companies, according to state media reports.

She was also found guilty of siphoning off $18 billion obtained through fraud and for using companies controlled by her to illegally transfer more than $4.5 billion in and out of Vietnam between 2012 and 2022.

It was not immediately clear if Lan would appeal the verdict and no date has yet been set for her appeal of her death penalty conviction to be heard.

In the April conviction, she was found to have orchestrated financial fraud amounting to $12.5 billion for illegally controlling a major bank allowing loans that resulted in losses of $27 billion, according to state media reports.

No, she's just got the billionaire gene. In America she'd be vice president right now.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably failing to report a conflict of interest that would’ve made her position impossible?

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 55 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

wikipedia has summarized the situation in a way neither the fortune article nor that AP news article could with a single paragraph:

In October 2022, she was arrested for using fake loan applications to embezzle more than US$12.5 billion from Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank, which she controlled through more than two dozen middlemen. This caused a bank run.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago

Amazingly concise lmao.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Rare NATOpedia W