FILE PHOTO - Trinh Xuan Thanh, former executive at a state oil company PetroVietnam, is seen on a street in Berlin, Germany October 20, 2016. Bui Thanh Hieu (Nguoi Buon Gio)/Handout via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - Czech authorities have arrested and extradited to Germany a Vietnamese intelligence agent suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of a Vietnamese businessman in Berlin last month, German prosecutors said on Thursday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has accused Vietnam of abducting the former manager of a state-owned company, who was seeking asylum in Germany, in an incident reminiscent of Cold War disappearances in the then-divided German capital.
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