{"id":9006,"date":"2026-01-23T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/vietnamese-real-estate-tycoon-to-raise-9-billion-or-face-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:14:30","slug":"vietnamese-real-estate-tycoon-to-raise-9-billion-or-face-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/vietnamese-real-estate-tycoon-to-raise-9-billion-or-face-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese real estate tycoon to raise $9 billion or face death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/148772ba-b153-11ef-870e-005056bf30b7\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/capture-712133860674ec56164fcb6.00466037.jpg\" \/><br \/>An Ho Chi Minh City court upheld a death sentence for Vietnamese real estate magnate Truong My Lan after convicting her for embezzlement and bribery in the country&#8217;s biggest financial fraud case. The 68-year-old still has the right to request a review of the case and can also commute her sentence to life imprisonment if she raises 75 percent of the sums she embezzled, which would total $9 billion. Also, a new plan to reduce the chances of drought in the Panama Canal raises concerns.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/business\/20241203-vietnamese-real-estate-tycoon-to-raise-9-billion-or-face-death-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ho Chi Minh City court upheld a death sentence for Vietnamese real estate magnate Truong My Lan after convicting her for embezzlement and bribery in the country&#8217;s biggest financial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3259,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immobilier","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}