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Massive corruption conviction in Vietnam worth ~9% of GDP 2024 Apr 12
Truong My Lan has been convicted of embezzling some impossibly huge percentage of Vietnam's gross domestic product alongside 85 other prominent bankers and government officials. What is clearly internal party politics boiling over as economic news, things are shaking up in the country in a way that's easy for an outsider like myself to miss the nuance of. But as each place on Earth struggles with adapting old strongman practices into modern power structures, it's interesting to see what's the Vietnamese version.
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