Vietnam | Court gives life term to oil exec after alleged abduction

A court in Vietnam gave a second life prison sentence yesterday to a former executive at Vietnam’s state oil giant accused of corruption and who Germany said was kidnapped from there by Vietnamese agents last year. State-run online newspaper VnExpress said Trinh Xuan Thanh, the former chairman of PetroVietnam’s construction arm, was convicted of embezzling USD622,000 from a property project developed by a subsidiary. Seven other defendants in the two-week trial were sentenced from six to 16 years in jail on the same charges. Thanh denied the allegations but testimony by other defendants and witnesses gave sufficient basis to issue […]