NE NEWS SERVICE
BEIJING, JAN 22
China has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months imprisonment on charges of accepting bribe of over $2 million.
Meng was elected president of the international police organization in 2016, but his four-year term was cut short when he vanished after travelling to China from France in late 2018.
Interpol was not informed and was forced to make a formal request to China for information about Meng’s whereabouts amid suspicion he had fallen out of political favour with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Courtesy: Agencies
