Slovakia says unlikely Vietnam used its plane in ex-oil executive's kidnapping

Slovakia's prime minister tried on Wednesday to distance his government from media reports that Vietnamese agents used a Slovak government plane to smuggle home a former oil executive they kidnapped in Germany last year. FILE PHOTO - PVC's former chairman Trinh Xuan Thanh is escorted by police officers from a court to prison after verdict session in Hanoi, Vietnam January 22, 2018.