The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged with fraud amounting to $US12.5 billion ($19.1 billion) – nearly 3 per cent of the country’s 2022 GDP.
Truong My Lan, center, in court in Ho Chi Minh City. AP
Her trial, begun on March 5 and ending earlier than planned, was one dramatic result of a campaign against corruption the leader of the ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, has pledged for years to stamp out.
“We will keep fighting to see what we can do,” a Lan family member told Reuters,…
