{"id":414,"date":"2024-04-30T02:09:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/vietnams-anti-corruption-campaign-has-slowed-legal-approvals-stymying-deal-flow\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T02:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:09:39","slug":"vietnams-anti-corruption-campaign-has-slowed-legal-approvals-stymying-deal-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/vietnams-anti-corruption-campaign-has-slowed-legal-approvals-stymying-deal-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam\u2019s Anti-Corruption Campaign Has Slowed Legal Approvals, Stymying Deal Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past year, Vietnam has been aggressively cracking down on corruption\u2014a campaign that culminated with \u00a0Truong My Lan, a 67-year-old former real estate tycoon, being\u00a0sentenced to death\u00a0earlier this month for her involvement in the country\u2019s biggest financial fraud case in history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lan, a\u00a0high-profile businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion\u2014nearly 3% of the country\u2019s 2022 GDP. More than 80 others, including central bank officials, have been implicated in the case, which was first filed in 2022 and has prompted a crackdown on corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Vietnam has been aggressively cracking down on corruption\u2014a campaign that culminated with \u00a0Truong My Lan, a 67-year-old former real estate tycoon, being\u00a0sentenced to death\u00a0earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[374,377,375,379,380,136,376,378,373],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-anticorruption","tag-approvals","tag-campaign","tag-deal","tag-flow","tag-legal","tag-slowed","tag-stymying","tag-vietnams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}