HANOI, Vietnam — The embezzlement trial began Wednesday for a former executive at Vietnam’s state oil giant who Germany said was kidnapped from there by Vietnamese agents last year. He is among eight defendants all accused of embezzlement in the trial expected to last two weeks. The defendants in the latest case include Dinh Manh Thang, a former chairman of a construction company and the brother of Dinh La Thang. Scores of current or former senior PetroVietnam executives and bankers have been put on trial for economic crimes. A trial of 46 defendants, most of them bankers and businessmen, is underway in southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City.

Source: National Post January 24, 2018 03:12 UTC