Death sentence upheld for property tycoon in Vietnam — unless she pays $9 billion before execution

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-death-sentence-tycoon-truong-my-lan-upheld-unless-pays-9-billion/

28 comments

  1. This is how all rich people should be treated, everywhere.

  2. Meanwhile America makes its billionaire criminals leader of the country.

  3. There should not be billionaires, 100 percent tax over 1 billion in assets/income. Globally.

    They can retain control of their companies with class a stock, and sell the rest as non voting b stock if they want.

    Fuck this gilded age.

  5. According to the article, that’s three quarters of the money she embezzled. Depending on how she spent that money, she would have 3 billion left and be absolutely  loaded. 

    Meanwhile I’m over here trying to save up less than a million to retire. I wouldn’t even know how to go about losing 1 billion.

  6. The only two things billionaires fear: death and losing their money. Americans can learn a thing or two here.

  7. She won’t pay it when she can keep the money in the afterlife.. its gonna be sweet.

  8. Sounds like she should head over to r/wallstreetbets and gamble what she has for the $9 bil with whatever she has left. She has no reason not to since it seems to be an all-of-nothing deal.

  9. I firmly oppose the death penalty, except for white collar crime.

    People say capital punishment is a deterrent. Probably not, for the crime of passion or the desperate person robbing a liquor store and shooting a clerk.

    But for some slime ball stealing people’s pensions, or embezzling fortunes…if they knew they’d hang, they’d probably think twice. Mission accomplished.

  10. In viet nam they punish criminals, in America they elect them!

  11. Heard she petitioned the judge to place a $1 billion parlay to make it back

  12. Interestingly, she still has the money. She got arrested. Convicted. And sentenced to death. But she still has the money! Like, why be able to give a death penalty sentence—but not able to seize the money!???

  13. While I’m still not a fan of the death penalty, I am a *HUGE* fan of wealthy people facing consequences of their actions.

  14. Old news. The Vietnamese government already announce that she will get the death penalty no matter what.

  16. Just fucking pay it. Seriously, liquidate your giant Beanie Baby collection or whatever you have to do.

  17. With that much money, why could she not get a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA)? Oh, maybe that’s only available in the US.

  18. They will get whatever money she has, and then say it wasn’t enough and kill her anyways.

  19. She’s lucky the law law was changed not that far back. Before the change there was no such option.

  22. She embezzled 12 billion or 2.8% of vietnam’s gdp. The usa equivalent is 774 billion.

  24. I feel bad for her. I don’t think anyone should be put to death over matters of money, regardless of how much.

  26. Dunno about you but I would be calling every billionaire I could find. Run up every credit card I possibly could.

  27. We need to export this to America. I wanna do Elon next!

  28. It’s not about being angry at the world for billionaires having resources, it’s about how those resources reshape the world for everyone else. Consolidation of power in politics, consolidation of wealth that leads to an imbalance in power for the labor and their rights, and just the general ability to pay their way out of any trouble they cause.

    It’s not that someone being richer than you, me, that person… whoever… is a problem, it’s the dynamic that is formed between all of us when that person has those resources in our current system.

    We just watched a South African man essentially buy the de facto US Vice Presidency, and may arguably be the most powerful VP ever, even if just as a shadow VP.

    I don’t care who you are, you should not want that unless you are the person poised to be the Oligarch, and you also believe you won’t be falling out of any windows.

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