China has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in
prison on charges of accepting more than $2 million in bribes.
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Meng was elected president of the international
police organization in 2016, but his four-year term was cut short when he vanished after traveling to
China from
France in late 2018.
Interpol was not informed and was forced to make a formal request to China for information about Meng's whereabouts amid suspicion he had fallen out of political favor with Chinese President Xi Jinping.