Two Vietnamese officials accused of sexually attacking two young female servers at a Wellington restaurant won't return to face criminal charges after attempts to extradite them failed, New Zealand authorities say.

NZ police would not disclose why efforts to return the men had stalled, but the two countries don't have an extradition treaty so Hanoi would have had to turn over the alleged attackers voluntarily.

"It's disappointing that police requests for extradition have been unsuccessful," a spokesperson for NZ Minister Chris Luxon said in a statement.

"Clearly it is not the outcome we wanted."

One of the women said she and her co-worker were attacked at the Vietnamese restaurant where they worked in Wellington in March 2024, days before Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính was d

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