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.
Interpol Elects South Korean as its President
STEPANAKERT, NOVEMBER 21, ARTSAKHPRESS: 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.