Interpol Elects South Korean as its President

• 11.21.2018, 15:33
•  EEU,  Asia,  World

South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang has been elected as Interpol’s next president, edging out a longtime veteran of Russia’s security services who was strongly opposed by the US, Britain and other European nations, The Guardian reports.

Kim was chosen by Interpol’s 94 member states at a meeting of its annual congress in Dubai. He will serve until 2020, completing the four-year mandate of his predecessor, Meng Hongwei, who went missing in his native China in September. Beijing later said Meng resigned after being charged with accepting bribes.