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| Subject: Race to stop Russian becoming Interpol head Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:57 pm | |
| Two of the Kremlin's most prominent critics have joined forces to try to stop a Russian becoming the next president of international police organisation Interpol, saying they feared Moscow would abuse the post to hunt down its detractors.
Interpol's general assembly is due to elect a new president on Wednesday after incumbent Meng Hongwei of China went missing in September.
Beijing later said it had detained him in connection with a bribery probe.
The battle to succeed him turned political after Alexander Prokopchuk, a former major general in Russia's Ministry of the Interior, emerged as one of the favourites to get the job, a prospect that alarmed critics of President Vladimir Putin.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/race-to-stop-russian-becoming-interpol-head-20181121-p50hb0.html |
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