Kalinak: Several flaws in theory on abduction of Vietnamese businessman

Former Slovak interior minister Robert Kalinak wrote on Facebook on Monday that he cannot imagine that an "official working visit" of a Vietnamese cabinet minister could have been misused for anything other than friendly purposes. "This holds regardless of the fact that the problematic person was someone who allegedly embezzled $130 million in his home country and he's suspected of fraud and money laundering also in Germany," said Kalinak. The former Slovak interior minister was commenting on a report by German media that Vietnamese entrepreneur Trinh Xuan Thanh, 51, was kidnapped from Germany by the Vietnamese secret service while the country's Minister of Public Security To Lam was in Slovakia in the summer of 2017. According to the German press, some suspects appeared in Lam's presence in Bratislava and the Slovak interior ministry even provided a plane to the Vietnamese after a sudden change of their plans.