The first phase of the appeal trial in the Van Thinh Phat case has been adjourned until November 15th to clarify the plan that Ms. Truong My Lan has committed to using her personal assets to compensate SCB for the damages.
Quoc Cuong Gia Lai Company has withdrawn its appeal and agreed to pay 2.882 billion VND to Truong My Lan according to the first-instance judgment regarding the dispute over the transfer of the Nha Be project.
At the appeal hearing, defendant Do Thi Nhan stated that the price she paid for her crimes was too high, that she had lost almost everything, and hoped the panel of judges would consider mitigating her sentence.
During questioning, defendant Truong My Lan accepted full responsibility for the case but denied managing SCB Bank.
According to the court clerk's report, defendant Nguyen Cao Tri submitted a request for trial in absentia at the appeal hearing of the Van Thinh Phat case, phase 1, due to health reasons.
The Ho Chi Minh City High Court is hearing the appeal of defendant Truong My Lan and 47 other defendants on charges of embezzlement causing losses of 677.000 billion VND to SCB.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court ruled to revoke the freezing order, return the account to Mr. Chu Lap Co (husband of Ms. Truong My Lan), and revoke the freezing order on Mr. Truong Me's account.
The Ho Chi Minh City High Court has set a date for the appellate trial of defendant Truong My Lan, who is appealing her death sentence in phase 1 of the Van Thinh Phat case.
TAND TP.HCM đã tuyên án sơ thẩm giai đoạn 2 bị cáo Trương Mỹ Lan và 33 bị cáo khác trong sai phạm xảy ra tại Công ty cổ phần Tập đoàn Vạn Thịnh Phát, Ngân hàng SCB.
The investigative agency of the Ministry of Public Security has requested the Valuation Council to select a consulting firm to determine the land use rights price and the value of the Saigon One Tower project in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
Sáng 11/10, tiếp tục phần tranh luận tại phiên tòa xét xử, bị cáo Trương Mỹ Lan (Chủ tịch HĐQT Vạn Thịnh Phát) và đồng phạm, bà Lan bật khóc khi nói lời sau cùng.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Procuracy has requested the court to reduce the sentence of defendant Ngo Thanh Nha, the sister-in-law of defendant Truong My Lan, compared to the previously proposed sentence.
The defense lawyer for Truong Vincent Kinh - Truong My Lan's cousin - argued that the defendant regretted signing the documents that allowed Ms. Lan to embezzle more than 26.000 billion VND.
In the Tan Hoang Minh case, the enforcement agency has paid 8.547 billion VND to 6.630 victims out of a total of 8.644 billion VND that should have been paid.
Defendant Truong Hue Van asked the court to exempt Mr. Chu Lap Co, the husband of Truong My Lan, whom she considered her mentor, from punishment.
The leaders of C03 assessed these as major, complex cases, falling under the monitoring and direction of the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negative phenomena.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Procuracy has requested a life sentence for defendant Truong My Lan on three charges: "Fraudulent appropriation of property," "Money laundering," and "Illegal transportation of currency across the border."
Novaland asserts that it has no connection to the Tan Thanh Long An Project, for which Truong My Lan demanded the corporation pay 2.500 billion VND in cash to mitigate the consequences of the case.
According to Mr. Le Minh Tri, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court, the Van Thinh Phat case involves a very large amount of assets, so it needs to be handled cautiously to avoid any negative consequences.
Defendant Truong My Lan argued that auctioning off the two albino Hermes bags would take too long, and that it would be better to tell her children and grandchildren to earn money to buy them back.
Truong My Lan requested the court to consider allowing her to reclaim her diamond jewelry set, weighing over 30 carats, including a ring, necklace, and earrings, as it was "given to me by my mother as a keepsake and a lucky charm."
Ms. Truong My Lan claimed that nearly $1 billion out of the total of over $3 billion transferred from abroad belonged to the defendant's friends and was intended to purchase shares and participate in the restructuring of SCB.
Truong My Lan stated that the money transferred abroad and the money transferred back to Vietnam belonged to the defendant and was not related to SCB, and requested to take responsibility for the overseas transfers.
Truong My Lan confessed that she forced Chu Lap Co (her husband) to use money from SCB credit cards with a limit of up to 10 billion VND.
Defendant Truong My Lan denied directing SCB leaders to disburse money for personal purposes and argued that the defendants' testimonies were not incorrect but easily misleading.
Truong My Lan's private driver testified that upon receiving instructions, he would go to SCB Bank to collect the money, which had already been packed in boxes and only needed to be loaded onto the vehicle for transport.
Defendant Ngo Thanh Nha, General Director of Van Thinh Phat Group, wants to use her salary earned during nearly 30 years of working at the group to mitigate the consequences.
A friend of Truong My Lan wants to repay the $250 million bank loan on behalf of the three shareholders of the Capital Palace project and lend the defendant an additional $130 million to mitigate the consequences.
Defendant Truong My Lan argued that Van Thinh Phat had no need to issue bonds because it was not related to the banking and finance sector, and that this policy came from the leadership of SCB.
Nguyen Vu Anh Thi was hired to be the legal owner of the company but did not manage it; however, she still signed the bond issuance, helping Truong My Lan to embezzle 6.506 billion VND from the victim.
Hotline: 0855.911.911 
RSS 
