Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in $27B fraud case

Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by virtualritz on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:02PM (#40003672)

> Death penalty for corruption? That seems barbaric.

I find this a 'curious' pov. If financial fraud is affecting savings of many thousands of people, where savings = lifetime spent toiling, a view one may dare take is that there is little difference in killing someone (essentially robbing them of the leftover lifetime).

In a country like Vietnam, where about 13% of people pay into pensions at all [1], loosing your savings literally will shorten your life. Even if you're in those 13% btw, as you can't live off state-pensions[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Vietnam#Funding

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Vietnam#State_non-...

EDIT: I like to add that I am against death penalty under any circumstances.

But if you're in the US and are ok with death penalty there, I'd argue you should be, too, in the case at hand.

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by hinkley on Friday April 12, 2024 @03:11AM (#40010119)

As someone else said, she stole 6.6% of the GDP

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by BizarroLand on Monday April 15, 2024 @07:30PM (#40046821)

The equivalent in America would be 1.68 trillion dollars, which is 70 million dollars shy of the total amount of outstanding student loan debt in America.

I feel like if you only polled people who owe more in student loan debt than they make in a year if they would push a button to allow the single person who stole 1.68 trillion dollars to be executed by the state in exchange for 96% of their student loan debt vanishing into thin air (but being 1/(number of agreeing people) responsible for her death) then chances are they're pushing that button.

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