From 2012 to 2022, one of the bank’s owners, Truong My Lan, has been arrested for illegally obtaining a loan of nearly 44 billion dollars from Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank, a leading bank in Vietnam. My Lan, who is the owner of a very famous real estate company in Vietnam, owns only 15% of the controlling shares of Vietnam’s Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank, and according to reports, her friends and other companies owned by her own about 90% of that bank. Owning a total controlling stake.
It has been proven that she has misused this share authority and obtained a loan of nearly 44 billion dollars for her shell and other businesses without proper approval and regulation. Among these loans it is estimated that around 12 billion of us dollars have been funneled to the private requirements of My Lan Also, it has been proven that bribes have been given to the Vietnam central bank grantors for approving the loans without proper procedures in obtaining these loans. Alongside Lan, more than 80 other people including central bank officials have been charged in the case for damaging SCB, state media reported. Rumors claimed that about 2 Tons weight containers which contains of physical notes have been illegally smuggles and transported to the My Lan’s house within that period in several times.
For this case, 108 boxes containing 6 tons of stationery were brought and more than 2700 witnesses were summoned to the court for the trial.This will be remark as one of a most crucial and prestigious judgement given by the law suit in Vietnam and one of a most impressive law case in business world.