Trinh Xuan Thanh, a former official at state oil company PetroVietnam, sits on a park bench in Berlin in this undated photo. Vietnam's state television on August 3, 2017 broadcast images of the former state oil executive saying he had turned himself into authorities in the southeast Asian country, after Germany accused Vietnam of having kidnapped Thanh who was seeking asylum. REUTERS/dpa/picture alliance
BERLIN (Reuters) - The mysterious abduction of a Vietnamese former oil executive in broad daylight from a leafy district of Berlin is reminiscent of Cold War disappearances in the then divided German capital.
In a highly unusual move, Berlin has explicitly accused Vietnam of kidnapping Trinh Xuan Thanh, a former employee of PetroVietnam who faces charges of financial mismanagement in Vietnam and was seeking asylum in Germany.
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