Interpol’s Curious Unconcern About Its Disappeared Ex-Chief

Expand Then-Interpol President Meng Hongwei at an International Cybersecurity Congress at Moscow’s World Trade Center, July 6, 2018. © 2018 Mikhail Metzel/TASS via Getty Image “There was no reason for me to [suspect] that anything was forced or wrong.” So said Jurgen Stock, secretary general of the global police organization Interpol, on the fate of its former president Meng Hongwei, on November 8, just days before throwing a glittering ceremony at its general assembly, at which Meng’s replacement was to be elected. Meng, who served as Interpol president as well as China’s vice minister for…

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