One of the cables deemed ''commercial in confidence'' - dated June 4, 2010 - details an email conversation about a letter received from the SCIC. That same day Australia's ambassador to Vietnam, Allaster Cox, met Vietnam's Finance Minister, Vu Van Ninh. The SCIC answers to Vietnam's Finance Minister.
Less than three weeks later, Qantas and the SCIC, the majority shareholder in Jetstar Pacific, reached the agreement on the ''commercial package'' that would help lift the travel restrictions on the Australian pair.
Then, on June 29 last year, a ''confidential'' DFAT cable shows Marsilli and Freeman fronted a meeting before a two-star general, Tran Trung Dung, and a colonel, both from Vietnam's feared secret police.
''Having concluded their assistance with the investigation, the two Australians were advised by the Vietnamese authorities … that they were free to depart,'' states a DFAT document on June 30, 2010.
And this is just a taste of what Asia has to offer Westerners who dont play by their rules, remember, Vietnam plays softly compared with China and Singapore.....Good luck Leprechaun, you need all you can get.