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

Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by monero-xmr on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:15PM (#40005744)

He worked at a few large companies with offices, and this is what he told me. Maybe you need to be big and legacy with a physical footprint. But this is what he told me. He has a lot of very interesting anecdotes. For example in Laos if you impregnate a woman as a foreigner, you have to marry her, under penalty of death. So his girlfriends were always trying to mess with his condoms, try to get him to have unprotected sex, and various oddities. So he claimed

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by olddustytrail on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:50PM (#40006075)

It seems your friend is prone to tall tales and you are incredibly gullible.

No connection to your username at all...

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by ceejayoz on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:28AM (#40013326)

This particular one appears to be at least partially accurate - forced marriage on penalty of death sounds like a significant exaggeration.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

Under "Local Laws & Special Circumstances":

> Relationships with Lao citizens: Lao law prohibits cohabitation or sexual contact between foreign citizens and Lao nationals except when the two parties have been married in accordance with Lao Family Law. Any foreigner who cohabitates with or enters into a sexual relationship with a Lao national risks being interrogated, detained, arrested, or fined. Foreigners are not permitted to invite Lao nationals of the opposite sex to their hotel rooms, and police may raid hotel rooms without notice or consent. Foreigners, including U.S. citizens of Lao descent, are not allowed to stay in the homes of Lao nationals, even family, without the prior consent of the village chief and local police.

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by lostemptations5 on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:16PM (#40008814)

Yeah these are complete fabrications.

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by monero-xmr on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:44AM (#40009457)

I don’t think so

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by shp0ngle on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:16AM (#40009861)

your friend should stop seeing "girlfriends".

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