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Vietnam tycoon given death for $12.5bn fraud
Published on 11/04/2024
» HANOI - A court in Vietnam on Thursday sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death for her role in a $12.5-billion financial fraud case, the country’s biggest on record,
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Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case
Reuters, Published on 19/03/2024
» HANOI - Vietnamese prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed to Truong My Lan, the mastermind of the Southeast Asian nation's largest financial fraud on record, state media said.
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Property tycoon ‘embezzled $12bn’ in Vietnam’s biggest fraud case
Published on 03/03/2024
» For several years, Truong My Lan held meetings on the 39th floor of the sleek Times Square tower in the heart of Vietnam’s commercial hub, Ho Chi Minh City. There, in a room that acted as her command centre, she allegedly wove a $12 billion tapestry of fraud and corruption, according to the police reports that form the basis of a court case against her.
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Ruling due in historic Vatican fraud trial
AFP, Published on 16/12/2023
» VATICAN CITY - A Vatican court delivers its ruling on Saturday in a historic trial focused on an opaque London property deal, with a once-powerful cardinal among 10 defendants facing jail for alleged financial crimes.
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France's Le Pen ordered to stand trial in EU funding scandal
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» PARIS - French prosecutors on Friday ordered far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen to stand trial over claims she used European Union (EU) funds to finance party activities in France.
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Ex-crypto tycoon found guilty on all counts at fraud trial
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» NEW YORK - Former crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty Thursday by a New York jury on all seven counts of fraud, embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.
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Bankman-Fried struggles in final day of court testimony
AFP, Published on 01/11/2023
» NEW YORK - Former crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried struggled on Tuesday to explain his behavior during the last days of his FTX empire, as prosecutors shone a light on his willingness to take massive risks.
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In a climate of fear, Ecuadorans elect a new president
AFP, Published on 16/10/2023
» QUITO - Polls closed in Ecuador Sunday with no reports of violence as both presidential candidates cast their votes in bulletproof vests just weeks after a rival was murdered.
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Star witness at US crypto trial says Bankman-Fried ordered fraud
AFP, Published on 11/10/2023
» NEW YORK - Disgraced crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried was the mastermind behind a scheme to defraud FTX clients of billions of dollars, the star witness in his US trial testified on Tuesday.
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Gabon charges ousted president's wife with money laundering
AFP, Published on 29/09/2023
» LIBREVILLE - The wife of Gabon's ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with "money laundering" and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after a coup toppled her husband.
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