Truong My Lan, the head of property developer Van Thinh Phat was sentenced to death this week convicted of a number of charges including embezzling US$12.5 billion. Local news coverage is more or less all the same. See: Vietnam property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in multi-billion dollar fraud case. In the international press the BBC had some pretty good analysis, see: Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud.
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