Former Interpol President Sentenced To Prison In China For Corruption
Meng Hongwei, the global police agency's first Chinese president, disappeared in 2018 only to turn up in custody in China. Meng pleaded guilty last year to accepting more than $2 million in bribes.
by Colin Dwyer
Jan 21, 2020
2 minutes
The former president of Interpol has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. Meng Hongwei, the first Chinese national to assume the presidency of the France-based international law enforcement organization, received his 13 1/2-year sentence for corruption Tuesday in a Chinese courtroom.
Meng to using his position in China to finagle more than as Interpol president, he served more than a decade as China's vice minister of public security.
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