0:00 - To escape the death penalty, Truong My Lan must pay nearly 11 billion USD 1:32 - US House of Representatives election: Derek Tran declares victory 3:07 - Kon Tum has 11 earthquakes in succession Ms. Truong My Lan asked the Court to reduce her death sentence in her final statement at the appeal hearing of the SCB bank embezzlement case, while the Procuracy cited the law to argue that Ms. Lan must pay back 280,000 billion VND to have a chance to escape the death penalty, according to domestic and international media. In response to Ms. Lan's lawyer's argument that she needs a reduced sentence because she has many mitigating circumstances, a representative of the High People's Procuracy in Ho Chi Minh City said on November 25 that Ms. Lan must pay 280,000 billion VND, or nearly 11 billion USD, to have a basis for considering a reduced death sentence, according to Thanh Nien newspaper. The prosecutor's request was based on a provision, Clause 3 of Article 40 of the Penal Code, which stipulates that if the defendant hands over at least three-quarters of the embezzled property, the death penalty will be exempted. Although the Court acknowledged that Ms. Lan had admitted her wrongdoings, repented, confessed honestly, and made efforts to remedy all the consequences of the case, it was still not enough to reduce her death sentence, according to Thanh Nien. In her final statement to the Court, quoted by the French news agency AFP, Ms. Truong My Lan was said to have asked the Court to exempt her from the death penalty because she was trying to compensate for the damage to SCB Bank. "My only thought was how to repay the debt to the State Bank of Vietnam and the people. I did not think about the damage to myself and my family," Ms. Lan was quoted by AFP as saying. "I feel sad for causing damage to the country's resources." --- VOA Vietnamese - Update truthful, multi-dimensional information about the situation in Vietnam and internationally. News on the East Sea. Special reports on many topics: science-technology, politics, education, life, society, economics, health, culture, entertainment... Live Q&A 🙋 via Facebook Live https://bit.ly/3f603Y4 and YouTube Live https://bit.ly/3D1eHwi with VOA guests revolving around the topics of medicine, studying in the US, US immigration, economics, science, food, environment. Topic Roundtable. Thursday Discussion. 🛎 Subscribe and ring the bell to stay updated with the latest news: https://bit.ly/VOATiengVietYouTube Follow VOATiengViet on: ➡️ Website https://www.voatiengviet.com/ 🔓 Proxy to bypass the firewall to access the website: https://bit.ly/voatvyt4 And social media sites: ➡️ Facebook / voatiengviet ➡️ Instagram / voatiengviet ➡️ X (Twitter) / voatiengviet 👉 If you cannot access VOA, please use the link https://bit.ly/voatvyt4 to bypass the firewall. The VOA app has a new design and improved news access. The features you loved before are integrated with firewall bypass tools to access VOA news in 22 languages. Download the VOA Vietnamese app on: ➡️ App Store https://bit.ly/VOAAppA ➡️ Google Play https://bit.ly/VOAAppG VPN: Firewall bypass tools help users avoid censorship when accessing the Internet. Download the nthLink firewall bypass app (https://bit.ly/nthlink-app) on: ➡️ App Store https://bit.ly/nthLinkA ➡️ Google Play https://bit.ly/nthLinkG With a clean, easy-to-use design, Psiphon 3 offers VPN-like security and encryption features. Download Psiphon at https://www.psiphon3.net/en/download.... or email [email protected] to receive the Psiphon operating file. #VOATIENGVIET #News #News #Current Events #VOA #News