International law enforcement organization Interpol elected a new president on Wednesday, and the results were a welcome surprise: South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang defeated the heavily-favored Russian candidate, Maj. Gen. Alexander Prokopchuk, by a vote of 101 to 61 at the Interpol General Assembly in Dubai.
(AFP) – A growing chorus of critics is calling on Interpol to reject a Russian candidate to lead the organisation, over fears Moscow could abuse the presidency to target political opponents.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday stated his government’s strong support for Alexander Prokopchuk to become the next president of Interpol. The international law-enforcement organization will hold an election on Wednesday to replace President Meng Hongwei, who was arrested and jailed in China last month on corruption charges.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Police chiefs from around the world gathered in Dubai on Sunday for Interpol’s general assembly to select a new president after the agency’s former leader was detained in China.
The secretary general of Interpol, Juergen Stock, discussed the disappearance of former agency president Meng Hongwei in depth on Thursday, insisting that the Chinese government’s arrest of him was a “sovereign” matter in which Interpol could not challenge or intervene.
Grace Meng, wife of former Interpol President Meng Hongwei, began issuing a series of interviews last week, and most recently spoke to the Associated Press this weekend, urging the Chinese government to provide more information on her husband’s whereabouts and guarantee both of their safeties since Beijing admitted to arrested him early this month.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper published a stern condemnation Tuesday of global concern over the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the president of Interpol who Beijing confirmed it had arrested on Monday on unspecified charges of corruption.
Interpol issued an official statement on Sunday confirming they had received the resignation of President Meng Hongwei shortly after the Chinese government admitted to abducting Meng, imprisoning him for allegedly taking bribes and other corrupt acts.
Meng Hongwei, the president of Interpol, was reported missing Friday morning after his wife told authorities in France she had not heard from him since he left for a family visit to China in late September.
The Heritage Foundation held an event to discuss Taiwan’s role in international organizations on Thursday, with an emphasis on the way China is using its growing economic and diplomatic clout to block Taiwanese membership in vital organizations related to health, safety, and security.
NEW YORK – American Jewish groups have slammed Interpol for for granting ‘Palestine’ entry to the international police organization as a full member state.
NEW YORK – The U.S. will not honor Palestinian arrest warrants issued through Interpol, a senior official in Washington said following the international police organization’s vote to include ‘Palestine’ as a full member state.
On Wednesday, the international police organization Interpol voted to admit the nonexistent “State of Palestine” despite strong Israeli objections.
Interpol on Wednesday approved the Palestinian Authority’s candidacy to join the global police organisation, a new victory in its push for membership in international institutions.
TEL AVIV – Israel is working to prevent the Palestinian Authority’s latest campaign to become a full member state in international bodies, this time by blocking its lobby to join Interpol.
The global police cooperation service Interpol has released a list of 173 Islamic State fighters potentially ready to engage in suicide bombings and other terrorist actions in response to the mounting losses the terror group is facing in the Middle
The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) denied numerous reports circulating this week that it had ejected the Turkish government from its online database following an attempt to brand tens of thousands of citizens believed to support Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen criminals.
According to a Turkish media report, Interpol blocked Turkey from accessing its criminal database after the Turks uploaded about 60,000 individuals wanted for the “crime” of having connections to exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, one-time friend and now arch-enemy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mexican authorities arrested a sexual predator allegedly responsible for forcing dozens of underage girls into prostitution in Texas, New York, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. The man was listed as one of the top 10 most wanted fugitives by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Interpol has suspended applications from Palestine, Kosovo and Solomon Islands to join the international police organization, a decision hailed by Israel as a “triumph” for its diplomacy.
The Palestinian government will protest against a delay in its application to join the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) at the body’s annual conference next week, an official said Friday.
Argentina issued another extradition warrant Thursday for an Iranian ex-foreign minister over the deadly bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994, the government said.
Federal law enforcement agents rounded-up forty-five international fugitives in the United States as part of an operation dubbed “Project Red II.” The operation teamed up agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) with deputy U.S. Marshals to find and arrest international fugitives.
People smugglers made over $5 billion (3.45 billion pound) from the wave of migration into southern Europe last year, a report by international crime-fighting agencies Interpol and Europol said on Tuesday. Nine out of 10 migrants and refugees entering the
Interpol Chief Jürgen Stock said yesterday that of an estimated 25,000 terrorist combatants thought to be operating across the globe, just under a quarter of them have actually been identified by law enforcement agencies. Mr Stock, the Secretary General of the
Malaysian authorities on Monday announced the arrest of three suspects—two Malaysians and a Pakistani national—in connection with the August 17 terrorist bombing of the Erewan shrine in Bangkok, in which 20 people were killed.
Last week’s attempted murder on the Thalys Express has prompted a curious response from Brussels as it struggles for ideas on combating cross-border terror attacks. Ayoub El Khazzani, the Moroccan national named as the attacker, was known to French, Belgian, German and Spanish
The Department of Homeland Security is instituting new security requirements for those countries in the Visa Waiver Program — or countries whose nationals do not need visas for short visits to the U.S. — due to the threats posed by foreign fighters, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson announced Thursday.
INTERPOL’s recent Dark Net training session in Singapore provides an interesting glimpse of just how widespread cyber crime has become, and how resourceful the new generation of criminals and terrorists are.
Interpol released Red Notices for two former FIFA officials and two executives on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and corruption.
INTERPOL has issued Red Notices, also called international wanted persons alerts, for two former FIFA officials and four corporate executives who have been charged with racketeering, conspiracy and corruption.
An anti-terror officer told The Daily Mirror that Samantha Lewthwaite, who has become known as the White Widow, is personally responsible for over 400 murders since she quickly rose up the ranks of Somalian radical Islam group al-Shabaab. “She is an
Interpol placed former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on their most wanted list. The red notice means Ukraine can extradite Yanukovych when he is caught regardless of where the arrest occurs.
