The Vietnamese POV of the same event, where Trinh Xuan Thanh was not kidnapped at all, but he willingly turned himself in to the Vietnamese authorities.

The Saigon Times Daily
A post on the Ministry of Public Security’s website informs the public of Trinh Xuan Thanh’s turning himself in to the police

HANOI – Trinh Xuan Thanh, former general director of PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC), on July 31 turned himself in to the investigative police agency under the Ministry of Public Security after a year of hiding overseas.

The Ministry of Public Security announced Thanh, who also served as vice chairman of Hau Giang Province and held other senior positions at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, surrendered to the police, but did not elaborate on how he had returned to the country.

Thanh had faced an international arrest warrant since the ministry issued it on September 16, 2016.

On September 15 last year, the ministry prosecuted Thanh for allegedly violating the State’s economic regulations causing serious consequences at PVC and its subsidiaries. Then, Thanh allegedly fled the country in mid-August last year...
https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/201 ... imself-in/

Germany accuses Vietnam of abducting businessman from Berlin

In broad daylight, witnessed by joggers and dog walkers, a former oil executive is plucked from a central Berlin park by armed men and bundled into the back of a car. Days later he appears on state television in his native Vietnam confessing he had in fact chosen to come home in order to face justice for his wrongdoings.

The story could well be the plot of a cold war thriller. Except that the German government has said it has “no doubt” that Trinh Xuan Thanh, 51, was abducted by intelligence agents just a few days ago. They have demanded an explanation from the Vietnamese government in Hanoi for the brazen act, as well as summoning its ambassador to the foreign ministry in Berlin and expelling its spy chief, who has been labelled persona non grata.

“We no longer have any doubt that Vietnam was involved in his abduction,” Martin Schäfer, a spokesman for Germany’s foreign ministry said...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... rom-berlin

Those commies run a tight ship.

Light fingered fucker will probably get the chop.

A shift in power in Vietnam explains the downfall of the once powerful Petrovietnam businessman who fled to Germany and was subsequently abducted by the Vietnamese state.

The ruthless truth behind Vietnam’s corruption crackdown
By: Calvin Godfrey - POSTED ON: October 11, 2017
Opinion: Those caught in the Communist party’s crosshairs see a ruthless effort by Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong to consolidate power

Enter Trinh Xuan Thanh: a balding, acne-scarred official driving around one of the poorest Delta provinces in a Lexus SUV. Not long after Dung’s exit, reporters wanted to know where he got his sweet ride and how his UK-educated 24-year-old son had come to head the marketing department of a state-owned distillery.

Such questions are like thunder to people such as Thanh, who sent the party a doctor’s note and bugged out to Berlin. By the time lightning struck, seven of his former colleagues at PetroVietnam Construction had gotten snared in the search for about $150m that had apparently vanished from the company’s books.

Once in Germany, the 51-year-old Thanh applied for asylum...
http://sea-globe.com/communist-party-se ... ral-power/

Probably said come to Vietnam voluntary admit you're a thieving villain and we will leave your son and family alone.

Or else you'll be neck deep in Dung. Not balls deep.

One more Vietnamese businessman has been caught up in the Vietnam government crackdown on corruption. They are serious about tracking down their criminal financial fugitives.

Fugitive Vietnamese Businessman Detained in Singapore, Lawyers Say
By Reuters 2 January 2018
SINGAPORE — A real estate developer wanted by Vietnamese authorities amid a crackdown on corruption has been detained in Singapore, lawyers representing him said on Tuesday.

Phan Van Anh Vu, 42, was detained in Singapore on Thursday at the Tuas border checkpoint as he tried to leave for Malaysia, said Remy Choo, who said he had been engaged by Vu’s family to represent him but had not yet been able to contact him.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security said last month it was seeking the arrest of Vu, a major property developer in the central city of Danang, where the local leadership was shaken up after corruption accusations last year.

Vietnamese media quoted police as saying Vu was wanted for revealing state secrets. They did not say what these related to or whether that was linked to his role as a property developer.
Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry also did not respond immediately to a request for comment on Vu’s detention in Singapore and whether Hanoi had sought his extradition.

Choo said Vu had applied for asylum in a European country.

Dozens of Vietnamese officials and business figures have been arrested in a crackdown on corruption that has gathered pace since the security establishment gained greater sway in the ruling Communist Party in 2016.
The crackdown grabbed world headlines last year when Germany accused Vietnam of kidnapping a former oil executive to return him home to face trial.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/asia/fug ... s-say.html

UPDATE:
Ex-PetroVietnam Chairman to be prosecuted for involvement in Phú Thọ ethanol case
Update: February, 17/2020 - 10:08

HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Public Security’s Security Investigation Agency has proposed prosecuting Đinh La Thăng, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and nine accomplices on charges of violating regulations on construction works, causing serious consequences at the Petrochemical and Bio-Fuel JSC (PVB) – a subsidiary of this group.

According to the investigation, Thăng signed a decision approving an ethanol factory project in the northern province of Phú Thọ. A year later, PetroVietnam established a steering committee led by Thang to launch bio-fuel projects.

PVB later invited bidding for a package TK05 named “Design, procurement, supply of equipment and construction of ethanol factory in the north”.

Though six contractors were unqualified, Thang and his subordinates signed many documents directing the joint venture PVC/Alfta Laval/Delta-T to join the project.

During the implementation, the project was forced to suspend in March 2013 due to the joint-venture’s poor capability, resulting in a State budget loss of over VNĐ540 billion (US$23.4 million).

PVB’s former General Director Vũ Thanh Hà and former deputy head of the project's investment office Nguyễn Xuân Thủy were also found to have committed violations in the case.

In 2018, Thăng was given a total of 30 years in prison for his involvement in two other cases at PetroVietnam. — VNS
https://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/59 ... -case.html