A German court on Wednesday sentenced a Vietnamese man to nearly four years in jail for taking part in a brazen Cold War-style kidnapping ordered by Hanoi of an oil executive from a Berlin park.
Judges at the Berlin court said the 47-year-old Czech-Vietnamese national, identified as Long N.H., was guilty of aiding an abduction and working for a foreign intelligence service.
But they handed him a relatively mild sentence of three years and ten months after he confessed to his involvement.
“The accused knew of the plans of the Vietnamese secret service but did not belong to the top level of command,” judges said in their verdict, according to DPA news agency.
Long N.H. admitted during his trial that he rented the vehicle used in last July’s abduction of fugitive Vietnamese state company official Trinh Xuan Thanh, who was spirited back to Hanoi.
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