A Vietnamese former state oil executive who was allegedly kidnapped from Germany was jailed for life on Monday for embezzlement, in the highest-profile corruption trial to target the communist country's business and political elite.
The case -- also involving 21 other officials, including a former party politburo member -- has captivated a country where the affairs of the powerful areRead more
The corruption trial of a Vietnamese former oil executive who was allegedly kidnapped from Germany opened on Monday, a high-profile case that can carry the death sentence.
Vietnam's communist government has embarked on a snowballing anti-corruption campaign, which observers say is politically driven and mirrors a graft crackdown in neighbouring China.
Scores of former officials, bankers and state executives have beenRead more
Germany on Wednesday accused Vietnam's secret service and embassy of kidnapping an asylum seeker on German soil, as Berlin expelled a Vietnamese spy.
"The kidnapping of Vietnamese national Trinh Xuan Thanh on German soil is an unprecedented and scandalous violation of German and international law," said foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer.
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