Ex-Vietnam oil exec 'kidnapped' in Germany to go on trial


Former Vietnamese official Trinh Xuan Thanh's brazen Cold War-style kidnapping from a Berlin park by Vietnamese security agents in July stunned many inside and outside the one-party state. – EPA pic, December 27, 2017.

A FORMER Vietnamese official allegedly kidnapped from Germany will go on trial in Hanoi next month on corruption charges, officials said today, a high-profile case that could see the ex-oil executive put to death.

Vietnam’s communist government has jailed or arrested scores of former officials, bankers and state executives this year as part of a sweeping anti-corruption crackdown that some observers say is driven by political infighting. 


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