Day: March 6, 2024

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Vietnamese Woman Accused of $12.5 Billion Fraud

Reported by Aniruddha for The Associated Press. Gregory Stachel adapted it for VOA Learning English. A major property investor in Vietnam, Truong My Lan, is on trial over an accusation of fraud amounting to $12.5 billion. That is nearly 3 percent of the country’s 2022 total economic production and the largest financial fraud case on […]

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U.S., Israel at Odds Over Claims of Links Between Hamas and Charities

Reported by Ian Talley The U.S., Israel and more than a dozen allies created a task force on terror financing following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Since then, they have used sanctions to target Hamas financiers, currency exchanges and corporate networks, as well as offering multimillion-dollar bounties for information on financial facilitators. But now, more […]