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Death verdict for Vietnam tycoon in $12.5 billion fraud case

A court in Vietnam handed the death sentence on Thursday to real estate tycoon Truong My Lan for her role in a 304-trillion-dong ($12.5-billion) financial fraud, the country’s biggest on record, state media said. Her trial, begun on…
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Arabic and international

Iraq court annuls death sentence in academic’s murder

An Iraqi court has overturned the death sentence handed down over the 2020 killing of prominent academic Hisham Al-Hashemi and sent the case back to investigators. Ahmed Hamdawi Oueid was sentenced to death by a Baghdad criminal court in…
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