Along with Senior Lieutenant General To Lam who was later promoted to General and earlier this week was elected as Vietnam’s State President, Lieutenant General Le Manh Cuong is also probed by Slovakia for the kidnapping of Trinh Xuan Thanh. Both are the highest-ranked police officers on the list of eight Vietnamese people probed by the EU’s country.
At that time, Lieutenant General Le Manh Cuong held the position of Deputy Director of the General Department of Intelligence (General Department V) under the Ministry of Public Security. He has held this possition since 2010.
In July 2917, then Minister of Public Security To Lam and Lieutenant General Le Manh Cuong led a high-ranking delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security to Slovakia in the name of working with the Ministry of Interior of Slovakia. And Mr. Robert Kalinak, then Minister of Internal Affairs of Slovakia, responded to To Lam’s request, lending the Slovak government’s special plane to transport the Vietnamese delegation of a total of 12 people to Moscow, that is, flying out of the Schengen area.The 12th person in the high-level delegation of the Ministry of Public Security present on the Slovakian plane was Trinh Xuan Thanh. He was brought on the plane with a passport named Luu Trung Viet, born September 2, 1968, passport number 333699.
