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China accuses former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei of taking bribes | SCMP |

A statement on the Ministry of Public Security's website also said police would form a task force to go after Meng's associates, adding that his "insistence on doing things in his own way means he has only himself to blame for being placed under investigation".

Meng's case is now in the hands of the country's new and powerful super-anticorruption agency, the National Supervisory Commission (NSC).

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The acting president of Interpol, Kim Jong Yang, told Associated Press on Monday that it had not been told about the investigation of its chief.

"I find it regrettable that the top leader of the organisation had to go out this way and that we weren't specifically notified of what was happening in advance," Kim said in a phone interview.

"We still don't have sufficient information about what's happening [with Meng] or whether it has anything to do with Chinese domestic politics."

Shortly after the NSC announced its investigation, China's Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi convened a midnight Communist Party committee at the ministry, which expressed "unanimous support" for the probe against Meng and pledged "absolute political loyalty" to President Xi Jinping and the party leadership, according to the statement.

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by Oui on Mon Oct 8th, 2018 at 02:37:32 PM EST
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A little bit of back-story :

The presidency of Interpol is a largely honorific post, not an executive one at all. There is a precedent for the current case : a former President, from South Africa, was recalled and jailed for corruption.

Meng Hongwei was atypical in that he lived at Interpol HQ (occasional visits was the norm for previous Presidents). What's more, his wife and children lived with him in Lyon, and still do.

China had considerably increased its contribution to Interpol, this was concomitant with the election of Meng Hongwei. It is speculated that the CCP/Government overestimated the purchase that the presidency would give them over such matters as the publication by Interpol of arrest notices issued by the Chinese government... Anything that looks political is, still, politely declined by the bureaucracy.

So most likely he was recalled for not getting value for money, and perhaps for refusing (or being unable) to act on specific cases.

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II

by eurogreen on Mon Oct 8th, 2018 at 03:37:30 PM EST
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