INTERPOL Chief Meng Hongwei missing
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PARIS (Reuters) - French police are investigating the disappearance of Interpol chief, Meng Hongwei, who was reported missing after traveling from France to his native China, and they have placed his wife under protection after threats, the interior ministry said on Friday. Meng’s wife contacted police in Lyon, the French city where the international police agency is based, after not hearing from him since Sept. 25, and after receiving threats by phone and on social media, the ministry said. A person familiar with the investigation into the disappearance said the initial working assumption of Western investigators was that Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-f...-idUSKCN1MF1BC
Case closed: new Interpol vacancy
Via the BBC:
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China has confirmed it is holding the missing head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei. Beijing said he was under investigation by the country's anti-corruption body for unspecified breaches of the law. Interpol said it had received his resignation from the presidency on Sunday with immediate effect.
Link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45777681
He is not the first to be removed
An unusually detailed review of how Meng Hongwei is not the first police senior official to be removed; I use unusual as the South China Morning Post (SCMP), based on Hong Kong has a new owner who has been criticized for being pro-Beijing.
The article ends with a SME's comment:
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(Professor)Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute in London and author of China in the Xi Jinping Era, said the most basic tenet of Xi Jinping Thought is strengthening party control. “With such goals it is unexceptional that Xi seeks to tighten control over the security apparatus and put his own men [almost exclusively] in charge of them, be it the People’s Liberation Army or the Ministry of Public Security or, for that matter, the other security apparatus.”
Link:https://www.scmp.com/news/china/poli...ublic-security
Former Interpol chief pleads guilty in Chinese bribery case
An update:
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The former president of Interpol, confessed to accepting more than $2 million (£1.6 million) in bribes and expressed regret for his crime, a Chinese court said Thursday. The No. 1 Intermediate Court in the northeastern port city of Tianjin said Mr Meng read a statement containing the confession at a hearing. That move assures a conviction, although it isn't immediately clear when a verdict and sentence would be handed down.
Link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ery-case-amid/