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Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud

www.bbc.co.uk Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud

Truong My Lan started life as a market trader. Now, she has been convicted of stealing billions.

Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud

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"Show trial" usually means "nit a real trial and the person may be innocent". The tone of the article is that she did the crime.
I am confused.
- "A show trial is a public trial in which the guilt or innocence of the defendant has already been determined. The purpose of holding a show trial is to present both accusation and verdict to the public, serving as an example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors."
  Has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the verdict, it's just a specific type of trial with a specific purpose.
  
  Thank you.
  So Vietnam's courts must not normally be open to the public?
  
  So it's basically for show, or to show the proceedings to the public. A "show trial", if you will.

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