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NoneA court in Vietnam has upheld a death sentence for a real estate tycoon after rejecting her appeal against a conviction for embezzlement and bribery, state media reported. Truong My Lan, the chairwoman of real estate developer Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, for her role in a financial fraud worth more than $12bn, Vietnam's biggest on record. The 67-year-old chair of the company Van Thinh Phat (VTP) was found guilty of embezzlement, bribery and violations of banking rules following a month-long trial. Lan and her accomplices were charged with illegally controlling the Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) between 2012 and 2022 to siphon off funds through thousands of ghost companies and by paying bribes to government officials. From early 2018 to October 2022, when the state bailed out SCB after a run on its deposits, Lan appropriated large sums by arranging unlawful loans to shell companies, investigators said. Vietnamese news outlet VnExpress reported that if Lan is able to return three-quarters of the money embezzled while on death row, it is possible the sentence could be commuted to life imprisonment.