Legal
Vietnam Tycoon Faces Second Fraud Trial After Death Sentence
- Truong My Lan appears in court on fresh graft charges
- Lan is appealing death sentence but faces decades behind bars
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The second trial of Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, already facing the death penalty for massive fraud, began Thursday morning, underscoring the new Communist Party chief’s determination to press ahead with a crackdown on corruption.
Lan, clad in a blue shirt and wearing a mask, was escorted into the French colonial courthouse by two police women. The hearing started at 8:15 am after she and 33 co-defendants that include her husband and niece arrived at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court in vans accompanied by a phalanx of siren-blaring police vehicles.