BERLIN -- Germany accused Vietnam on Wednesday of kidnapping a Vietnamese asylum seeker in Berlin and returning him to his country, where authorities suspect him of corruption. Berlin responded by ordering a Vietnamese intelligence officer to leave Germany. "There is no serious doubt about the participation of the Vietnamese intelligence service and embassy in the kidnapping of a Vietnamese citizen on German soil," a foreign ministry spokesman told reporters. "So the German State Secretary summoned the ambassador from Vietnam yesterday afternoon," he said. He said the official representative of the Vietnamese intelligence service had been ordered to leave Germany within 48 hours and Berlin was considering further action.

Source: Bangkok Post August 02, 2017 13:36 UTC