2 men sentenced to death for trafficking 30 kg of drugs from Germany
A Ho Chi Minh City court Thursday sentenced two men to death for abetting a German man traffic 30 kilograms of drugs into the city by concealing them in coffee machines shipped by post.
Vietnam court sentences 3 Laotians to death for trafficking nearly 121kg of narcotics
The People’s Court of Ha Tinh Province in north-central Vietnam on Thursday sentenced three Laotian nationals to death for illegally transporting narcotics.
HCMC court sentences 27 to death in drug trafficking case
The HCMC People’s Court sentenced a Vietnamese drug lord and her 26 subordinates to death on Friday for drug trafficking, marking a case with the highest number of individuals sentenced to death in Vietnam in the past decade.
Vietnam court upholds tycoon’s death sentence for $12bn bank fraud
Truong My Lan’s life could still be spared if she pays back three-quarters of the assets she embezzled.
Vietnam property tycoon sentenced to death for $27B fraud begs court to spare her life, saying she is trying to repay funds
A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for multi-billion-dollar fraud begged a court to spare her life Tuesday, saying she was trying to repay the stolen funds.
Vietnam court sentences former government accountant to death for embezzlement
A Hanoi court sentenced the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology’s former chief accountant to death after Nguyen Hoang was convicted of embezzling more than 152 billion dong ($6.2 million), according to a posting on the Vietnam government’s website.
Vietnam tycoon Truong My Lan, already sentenced to death, faces trial on new charges
Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, already sentenced to death, faces a new trial starting on Thursday on additional financial fraud charges, state media reported.
Man sentenced to death for possessing 2 kg of drugs
A Quang Nam Province court handed the death penalty on Tuesday to a drug dealer who was caught red-handed with two kilograms of drugs.
Thai woman receives death sentence in Vietnam for drug trafficking
A court in Vietnam has sentenced a Thai woman to death for illegally carrying 2.4kg of cocaine from Senegal to Vietnam by air last year.
Prosecutors claim Truong My Lan confessed to $4.5B illegal cross-border transactions
Property tycoon Truong My Lan has confessed she carried out illegal cross-border transactions worth US$4.5 billion, according to prosecutors.
Vietnam tycoon sentenced to death could face new charges, state media says
Truong My Lan accused of illegally transferring $4.5bn in latest development in country’s biggest-ever fraud case.
Vietnam tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in $12.5bn fraud case
The largest case of fraud in Vietnam’s history has been uncovered as part of a major state anticorruption drive.
Vietnam paints billionaire’s death sentence as a victory for clean governance. It’s not
It’s Southeast Asia’s biggest ever fraud, amounting to $12.5 billion and embroiling some of Vietnam’s top bankers and officials. And on Thursday, a Ho Chi Minh City court reached its verdict: a death sentence for Truong My Lan, a highflying…
Prosecutors recommend death sentence for Van Thinh Phat chairwoman Truong My Lan
The prosecutors have proposed a death sentence for Van Thinh Phat chairwoman Truong My Lan as for committing severe crime over a long period and causing irrevocable consequences.
HCMC man gets death penalty for mail receipt of drugs from Germany
A HCMC court sentenced local man Nguyen Liao Hung Tran, 30, to death for having 5.8 kg of drugs delivered to him from Germany by mail.
Death penalty for bank robber in Vietnam’s Da Nang
A court in Da Nang City, central Vietnam has issued the death sentence to a young man who, assisted by an accomplice, robbed a bank in the city and fatally stabbed the bank security guard last month.
Vietnam president reduces death sentence to life for 18 prisoners
President Vo Van Thuong signed a decision on Wednesday to reduce death penalties to life imprisonment for 18 prisoners who filed petitions for commuted sentences.
Two S. Koreans among 18 sentenced to death in Vietnam drug bust
Two South Koreans were among 18 people sentenced to death on drug smuggling and trafficking charges in Vietnam, state media said.
4 get death in HCMC for drug trafficking
Four people were sentenced to death in HCMC on Thursday for transporting 12 kg of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Criminal justice campaigns in Vietnam : from legal mobilization to dissenting collectivism ?
In recent years, campaigns to save prisoners on death row have become more audacious in criticizing the country’s authoritarian party-state.
Laotian drug mule who was paid mere $42 gets death sentence
A court in the central Ha Tinh Province has sentenced a Laotian man to death for transporting one kilogram of ketamine and 7,000 amphetamine pills into Vietnam.
Three drug mules get death sentence
A central Vietnam court handed three death sentences and one life prison term to four men found smuggling six kilograms of meth from Laos.
Vietnamese duo get death penalty for hosting drug parties in psychiatric hospital
A man who threw drug-fuelled raves at a psychiatric hospital in Vietnam has been sentenced to death.
Man receives death for raping, killing 12-year-old
A man in the southern province of An Giang was sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl.
Vietnam keeps its death sentences quiet. Rights groups say it’s one of the world’s biggest executioners
For months, Mai Linh prayed. She prayed for justice for her only son Quan when he was held on drug charges in a maximum-security prison in Vietnam.
Two Chinese get death for methaphamine production
A court in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum sentenced two Chinese men to death Saturday for running an operation producing over 11kg of meth.