"Pick up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl and scold the mother".
This is the first opinion of most netizens when Vietnam** arrested Zhang Meilan.
Truong My Lan donated nearly VND 2 trillion to Vietnam during the pandemic. The Vietnamese people have long regarded Truong My Lan as Vietnam's life-saving benefactor. The arrest of Vietnam** immediately sparked heated discussions among many netizens.
Just when everyone was speculating about what Zhang Meilan did to be arrested, there was another news in Vietnam** that Zhang Meilan's arrest was suspected to be related to Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing.
This news can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, not only the Vietnamese people are puzzled, but also Chinese netizens are very puzzled.
Who is this Zhang Meilan? What did she do to get arrested? How did she get involved with Li Ka-shing?
Zhang Meilan was originally a Chaoshan person. Zhang Meilan's father is a very discerning businessman, and under the influence of her father, Zhang Meilan also has a flexible mind.
Zhang Meilan's father is in the foreign trade business, and Zhang Meilan's family often has a lot of scarce goods from abroad.
After a long time, Zhang Meilan started the idea of these items, in Zhang Meilan's view, where there is a market, there is demand, not to mention these rare items that are not common in the market at home.
So, when Zhang Meilan was 16 years old, she took her family's belongings to school and sold them to her classmates.
I have to say that Zhang Meilan's business brain is really useful, she sells things at school, and she sells them very handy, and it didn't take long to save a small amount of money.
After becoming rich, Zhang Meilan started her first business, she opened a beauty shop and started a beauty business. Although her beauty shop is small, she has not made it her life's work.
But the beauty shop has brought a lot of gains to Zhang Meilan. Zhang Meilan not only accumulated her first pot of gold, but also had more views on the business field.
In 1986, Vietnam, which borders China, saw that China's reform and opening up was in full swing, so it also followed in China's footsteps and started the Vietnamese version of "reform and opening up" in China.
Vietnam** began to vigorously support the development of domestic economic construction and encourage the establishment of various enterprises.
After hearing the news, Zhang Meilan knew that this was definitely a good opportunity to make a fortune, so Zhang Meilan took all her funds and went to Vietnam to start a business.
In 1991, Zhang Meilan opened her own company, VTP Company.
Like many energetic young people, Truong Mei Lan is trying to make her company bigger and stronger in the Vietnamese market.
But the reality is often cruel, and if you want to open a company, you need the right time and place, and all of them are indispensable. But in the first few years, Zhang Meilan's luck may be a little bad, even if she dares to fight, her company is still not improving.
But Zhang Meilan did not give up, she felt that sooner or later she would come to the day. What Zhang Meilan expected was good, she really came to work in a few years.
At that time, Zhang Meilan unexpectedly met Zhu Liji, who came to Vietnam to develop the market.
Zhu Liji and Zhang Meilan fell in love with each other at first sight after they met, and not long after falling in love, the two of them got married.
Zhu Liji originally worked in Hong Kong, and Zhu Liji, who has seen the prosperity of Hong Kong, is more familiar with business and management methods than Zhang Meilan.
With the help of Zhu Liji, Zhang Meilan's company began to go smoothly, in addition to the first accident at the beginning, Zhang Meilan also expanded the company's business to the catering industry and hotel service industry.
By 2006, Zhang Meilan's VTP company has changed its name to VTP Group, and has also become the leading benchmark in Vietnam, and the strength of VTP Group in Vietnam can be compared with China's Wanda Group.
Zhang Meilan is no longer confined to ordinary business cooperation, she began to dabble in the real estate industry. The reason for this thought is that it has been many years agoReal estate has been speculated so hot that almost all the cash has gone to the highly leveraged, short-term wealth harvest of the real estate industry.
The real estate industry is a deep place, but Zhang Meilan and his wife have good vision and luck.
Taking advantage of Vietnam's economic upswing, they quickly entered the real estate industry and made huge profits by investing in real estate and second-hand trading.
This shot completely spread Zhang Meilan's reputation throughout Vietnam and even Southeast Asia.
In Vietnam, Zhang Meilan is known as the "richest Chinese woman".
It is said that the most important thing for a businessman is to stay sober, but the benefits of the real estate industry stunned Zhang Meilan's head. She began to wonder how she could squeeze more money out of the real estate industry.
Making money in the short term is already addictive, Zhang Meilan is impossible to stop, this is like a high-speed running car, if you force the brakes quickly, then you will face the situation of car destruction and death.
Zhang Meilan decided to continue her previous behavior and buy land for investment. So, Zhang Meilan fell in love with the land in the ** area of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
She thought that Vietnam is developing at a rapid pace, and if she buys this land now, she will definitely get a higher profit in the future.
Truong My Lan began to hoard land in Ho Chi Minh City. However, the limited liquidity within VTP Group is simply not enough to support Zhang Meilan's purchase activity.
As a result, Zhang Meilan began to illegally issue bonds to the market without meeting the conditions for bond issuance. In order to be able to buy the land she wants, Zhang Meilan did not do less to bribe Vietnam. But even so, Zhang Meilan's funds are still insufficient.
Zhang Meilan thought twice and decided to pull people in. So Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing received an invitation letter from Zhang Meilan.
In Zhang Meilan's view, Li Ka-shing has both money and investment vision, if Li Ka-shing is willing to join, then her investment decision this time will be stable.
Things went as smoothly as Ms. Chang had hoped, and Ms. Li agreed to work with Ms. Zhang to invest in Vietnam.
Zhang Meilan thought that her strong alliance with Li Ka-shing would definitely make a lot of money in the Vietnamese market as soon as possible, but what she didn't expect was that before she could be proud, the arrest warrant of ** found her first.
Vietnam has long wanted to clean up the chaotic economic situation in the country, so it began to carry out large-scale rectification of domestic enterprises. Zhang Meilan is one of the targets of rectification.
Zhang Meilan still doesn't understand the truth of convergence, and she is never low-key, so she trampled on the law in the past, and she was found out one by one.
In October 2022, Zhang Meilan was arrested by Vietnam** on charges of financial fraud, bribery and other crimes.
Although many netizens have turned out Zhang Meilan's previous charity activities and donation activities in Vietnam to defend her, all the explanations are extremely pale in front of the evidence released in Vietnam.
Zhang Meilan is destined to be imprisoned, and even Li Ka-shing, who has investment cooperation with her, will be interrogated and investigated by Vietnam**.
Zhang Meilan was able to make VTP bigger and stronger in that era of big waves and sands, and her own strength is undoubted.
But Zhang Meilan should never touch the red line of the law, a gentleman loves money, so he should also take it in the right way. Otherwise, no matter how much money you spend to mold your own golden body, there will be a day when it will be exposed.
From being in the limelight for a while, to the chicken feathers after the boots landed, Zhang Meilan can be said to have shown such a profound truth to people all over the world, that is"If virtue is not matched, there will be aftermath." "Decades of hard work have become empty overnight.