Vietnam's police recently arrested a Vietnamese American citizen for his alleged violations to the country's national security, local media reported Wednesday.

The 47-year-old detainee, Do Cong Thanh (also known as Do Thanh Cong), illegally left Vietnam in 1982 and settled in the United States in 1984, where evidence shows he joined a terrorist organization headed by overseas Vietnamese man named Nguyen Huu Chanh, said Vietnam News newspaper.

Vietnam's public security agencies discovered Thanh back in the country, with alleged plans to implement a terrorist plot to destroy the U.S. General Consulate in southern Ho Chi Minh City and seek revenge for Chanh, who was arrested by the government of South Korea following a request by the Vietnamese agencies.

The police found that last year, Thanh made contact with two people, allegedly to establish a reactionary organization aimed at overthrowing the Vietnamese government.

The local agencies are hurriedly investigating Thanh's violations on Vietnamese law in order to handle him within the country's justice system, and in accordance with international law.

The Anti-Terrorism Department under Vietnam's Public Security Ministry had a working session with Christopher Murray, an officer for regional security of the consulate about the case, handing him all documents and evidence on Thanh's activities that violate Vietnamese law, said the newspaper.

Source: Xinhua