Tag Archives: Interpol
China's former Interpol chief sentenced to 13 years in prison
Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who was detained on a visit to China in 2018, was sentenced Tuesday to more than 13 years in prison for bribery in a case that shook the international police organisation. Meng — a former vice minister of public security — is among a growing group of Communist Party cadres caught in President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign, which critics say has also served as a way to remove the leader’s political enemies.
China may halt French police cooperation over Interpol case: source
Chinese officials are threatening to stop all police cooperation with France after it gave political asylum to the wife of the former Interpol chief, a Chinese national now languishing in prison on charges of bribery, a French source close to the matter said Monday. “There hasn’t been any official request to suspend the cooperation but an informal expression of intent,” the source told AFP. French daily Le Monde reported over the weekend that the security attache at France’s embassy in Beijing had been told of the impending move.
China says detained former Interpol chief accused of bribery
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities scrambled to contain a public relations mess over the disappearance of the former Interpol president during his trip home to China, saying Monday that he was being lawfully investigated for bribery and other crimes.
Wife of missing Interpol chief says received knife emoji
The wife of missing Chinese Interpol president Meng Hongwei on Sunday said she received a message from his phone containing an image of a knife before his disappearance. Grace Meng urged national governments to intervene, saying she feared that her husband’s life was in danger. Speaking in Lyon, the southeast French city where the international police organisation is based, she said the last social media message she received from her husband came on September 25, depicting a single knife emoji.
The Latest: Interpol aware officer is reported held in China
PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the disappearance of the president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei (all times local):
