By Maria Ward-Brennan Vietnamese businesswoman at the heart of the largest corruption scandal in the country’s history has been sentenced to death after looting from one of Vietnam’s largest banks. Truong My Lan (67), the founder of Van Thinh Phat Group, a real estate development group, was arrested in 2022 for her role in a £10bn financial fraud, the country’s biggest on record. She was accused of faking loan applications to embezzle amounting to $12.5bn (£10 billion) — nearly three per cent of the country’s 2022 GDP from Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank. According to local media, the Than…