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Germany accuses Vietnam of Cold War-style kidnapping of businessman

2018-01-15T10:24:20Z

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WOLFSBURG, Germany, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday Germany was considering measures against Vietnam for kidnapping a former oil executive and described the abduction, denied by Hanoi, as reminiscent of Cold War spy movies. Germany says Vietnamese businessman Trinh Xuan Thanh, 51, was seized in Germany and spirited to Vietnam where he is suspected of corruption and causing around $150 million in losses at a Vietnamese state firm. Hanoi says he returned home voluntarily. Thanh "was taken out of Germany using methods which we believe one sees in thriller films about the Cold War. And this is something that we cannot accept," Gabriel told a news conference Gabriel, speaking after talks in Wolfsburg with Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, said Germany was considering punitive measures against Vietnam, but did not elaborate. He said Germany had asked a Vietnamese intelligence officer at the embassy in Berlin to leave. A foreign ministry source said it assumed the officer had left Germany after Berlin on Wednesday set a 48-hour deadline for his departure. "We demanded that he leave because we strongly believe he is a person who was involved in kidnapping," Gabriel said. German media say Thanh was seized in Berlin on July 23. "Everything supports this assumption that he, with the help of the Vietnamese secret service and using his residence in the Vietnamese embassy in Germany, abducted a person who had asked for asylum," Gabriel added. Vietnam says [http://vanphongcongchung.vn/ công chứng ở thanh xuân], a former official at the Vietnamese state oil company who is accused of corruption, returned home of his own free will. Germany is Vietnam's biggest trading partner in the European Union, which is considering approval of a free trade agreement with the Southeast Asian country, one of the region's fastest growing markets. Vietnamese officials had requested Thanh's extradition on the margins of the G20 summit, when Prime Minister Nguyen [http://Www.Dict.cc/?s=Xuan%20Phuc Xuan Phuc] met German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany earlier this week demanded that Thanh be allowed to return to Germany to claim asylum. Vietnamese state television on Thursday broadcast images of Thanh looking tired and he was quoted as saying that he had turned himself in. His lawyer in Germany ruled out this version of events, adding that witnesses had described how armed men violently bundled a man and a woman into a car with Czech registration plates outside the Sheraton hotel in western Berlin. The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung on Friday quoted the attorney as saying there were indications that Thanh had been transported via ambulance to an unnamed eastern European country, and was then flown to Vietnam. (Writing by Joseph Nasr and Andrea Shalal; editing by Clelia Oziel and Alister Doyle)

German prosecutors investigating alleged Vietnam espionage

2017-11-17T08:55:14Z

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BERLIN (AP) [http://www.exeideas.com/?s=-%20Germany%27s - Germany's] federal prosecutors say they've opened an investigation into whether Vietnam conducted illegal espionage in Berlin, after a Vietnamese national wanted by that country on embezzlement charges was kidnapped here and spirited home. Federal prosecutors said in a statement Thursday they believe Trinh Xuan [http://vanphongcongchung.vn/ công chứng ở thanh xuân] was kidnapped July 23 in the German capital. Vietnam had requested the extradition of Thanh, 51, on embezzlement charges, which carry the death penalty. He'd sought asylum in Germany and German authorities kicked Vietnam's intelligence attache out of the country after the alleged kidnapping and summoned the ambassador. Vietnam last week said Thanh had turned himself in, calling it "regrettable" that Germany accused Hanoi of kidnapping. The Vietnamese embassy wouldn't comment by phone and didn't immediately respond to an e-mailed query about the latest development.

FLC Samson Beach Golf Resort put into operation

2017-11-06T01:21:02Z

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Germany blasts Vietnam over kidnap of former oil executive

2017-11-05T12:00:27Z

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BERLIN (AP) - The German government accused Vietnamese intelligence services of involvement in what it called the kidnapping in Berlin of a former Vietnamese oil executive, and gave the country's intelligence attache 48 hours to leave Germany. Trinh Xuan Thanh, 51, disappeared in July last year after he was accused of mismanagement at a [http://ccmixter.org/api/query?datasource=uploads&search_type=all&sort=rank&search=subsidiary&lic=by,sa,s,splus,pd,zero subsidiary] of national oil and gas giant PetroVietnam, resulting in losses of some $150 million. Vietnamese police issued an arrest warrant in September. This week, Vietnamese authorities said he turned himself in to police in his homeland on Monday. The undated image provided on Aug. 2, 2017 show Trinh Xuan Thanh, a businessman and former functionary of Vietnam's Communist Party sitting on a park bench in Berlin, Germany, The German government accused Vietnamese intelligence services Wednesday of involvement in what it called the kidnapping in Berlin of a former Vietnamese oil executive, and gave the country's intelligence attache 48 hours to leave Germany. (dpa via AP) German authorities, however, believe that he was kidnapped in Berlin on July 23. They say that he had sought asylum in Germany - an application that hadn't yet been processed - and that Vietnamese authorities had sought his extradition. "There is no longer any serious doubt about the participation of the Vietnamese intelligence services and the embassy ... in the kidnapping of a Vietnamese citizen in Berlin," German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told reporters Wednesday. The kidnapping, he added, "is an unprecedented and flagrant violation of German and international law" and "has the potential to negatively influence relations in a massive way." Vietnam's ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry on Tuesday and was told that Germany demanded that Thanh be returned so that the asylum and extradition proceedings could be conducted properly. Schaefer said that German and Vietnamese officials had met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit on July 7-8 to discuss Hanoi's wish to have Thanh extradited. Germany is declaring the intelligence attache at Vietnam's embassy persona non grata and demanding that he leave within 48 hours, Schaefer said. "We reserve the right to draw further consequences if necessary at a political, economic and development policy level," he added. Berlin prosecutors said they couldn't comment on the case beyond confirming that there is an investigation. Calls to the Vietnamese embassy in Berlin were not answered. [http://vanphongcongchung.vn/ công chứng thanh xuân] was chairman of PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation until 2013 when he was appointed to several senior government positions, including vice chairman of Hau Giang province in the southern Mekong Delta. He was elected to the National Assembly in May 2016, but was dismissed from the communist-dominated legislature before its first session the following month. The ruling Communist Party and government have stepped up their anti-corruption drive over the past few years.

Vietnam detects last signal of missing plane

2017-11-04T17:13:01Z

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnamese authorities said Saturday they detected the last signal from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight off Vietnam's southwest coast over the South China Sea. Pham Hien, a Vietnamese search and rescue official, said that the signal was detected 120 nautical miles (140 miles; 225 kilometers) southwest of Vietnam's southernmost Ca [http://Www.zixiutangpollencapsules.com/?s=Mau%20province Mau province]. Lai Xuan [http://vanphongcongchung.vn/ công chứng thanh xuân], director of Vietnam's civil aviation authority, said that the plane was over the sea and bound for Vietnamese airspace but air traffic officials in the country were never able to make contact. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact early Saturday morning between Malaysia and Vietnam.

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2017-11-04T17:12:58Z

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