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Trinh Xuan Thanh went back to Vietnam is a story of a the former chairman and CEO of PetroVietnam Construction JSC, a unit of state energy group PetroVietnam ran away and returned to Vietnam after 10 months. There are 2 versions of the story and because of that there is a crisis in the relationship between Germany and Vietnam. The first version is from The Ministry of Public Security, which said in a statement on the 31 of july 2017 that he turned himself to the police following accusations of him causing massive losses at his old firm. The Ministry of Public Security issued an international arrest warrant for him in September 2016. It was not said where Trinh Xuan Thanh has been hiding overseas since then. It is also not clear how Thanh returned to Vietnam.

The second version is from German goverment, the press outside Vietnam and Thanh's lawyers: In broad daylight, witnessed by joggers and dog walkers, Thanh was abducted from a central Berlin park by armed men from Vietnam's secret service and bundled into the back of a car and have been driven to Prag, the capital of the Czech Republic. Thanh is believed to have been flown back from there to Hanoi on a plane hired by the vietnamese diplomats.