• InformalTrifle@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Disclaimer: didn’t read the article yet.

    But surely someone can’t commit such a huge fraud alone. Nobody at Saigon Commercial Bank is involved or culpable for loaning that amount to a fraudster?

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      7 months ago

      I mean, when you stop and think about it, you’ll realize that it’s probably all a giant mafia, and she crossed the wrong people the wrong way. There’s no way on earth that someone can disappear 10% of a country’s GDP without anyone knowing.

      There’s certainly corruption all the way to the top. Everything is controlled by one party, including the banks. Everyone knew for certain

    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yes the case involves over 2700 witnesses. The law in Vietnam forbid her from owning more than 5% of the bank shares. Through shell companies and other people, she owned about 90% of the bank. She then hired her own people as managers, and got them to approve loans for the shell companies she had. About 93% of the loans this bank approved were for her/her shell companies. She also had her driver withdraw the equivalent of $4billion usd, which she kept in her house (it weighed 2 tons).

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      But surely someone can’t commit such a huge fraud alone.

      Right. I’m less upset by a single individual facing execution than I am not seeing a dozen other crooks lined up on the docket.