The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP.

Wow, when your fraud starts being measured in "percentage of GDP" you know you got too greedy.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

According to prosecutors, over a period of three years from February 2019, she ordered her driver to withdraw 108 trillion Vietnamese dong, more than $4bn (£2.3bn) in cash from the bank, and store it in her basement.

That much cash, even if all of it was in Vietnam's largest denomination banknotes, would weigh two tonnes.

From a BBC article

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Dang, that's a lotta dong.

[–] padlock4995@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Ha. Thoroughly nose exhaled. 10/10

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