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Interpol Chief Vanishes

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Breaking Story:

French police probe Interpol president Meng Hongwei's disappearance
By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN
Posted at 1246 GMT (2046 HKT) October 5, 2018

Paris (CNN) — Police in France have opened an investigation into the disappearance of Interpol president Meng Hongwei, a police source with direct knowledge of the case told CNN Friday.

Meng's wife last heard from him 10 days ago, a spokeswoman for Interpol told CNN, declining to give her name. She refused to say if Meng was on official business in China when he was last heard from.

"Interpol is aware of media reports in connection with the alleged disappearance of Interpol President Meng Hongwei. This is a matter for the relevant authorities in both France and China," Interpol said in a statement. "Interpol's General Secretariat headquarters will not comment further."

Concludes with a list of agencies who all refuse to comment:
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/05/europe/interpol-president-meng-hongwei-disappearance-intl/index.html?adkey=bn&r=https://edition.cnn.com/
One's mind tends to turn to organised crime, but he's Chinese and there could be a domestic political isssue--or perhaps simple suicide.

Expect follow-ups soon.
 
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This is weird:

Interpol president Meng Hongwei ‘missing’ after trip to China
FRENCH police have opened an investigation into the whereabouts of Interpol's president, after his wife reported he had gone missing after travelling home to his native China last week.

https://www.news.com.au/world/europ...a/news-story/d1fb4add058fe6e1897ea56a16ffd32f

News of Meng's apparent disappearance comes on the heels of an announcement by Chinese officials that Hollywood star Fan Bingbing, who also vanished without a trace several months ago, has been ordered to pay millions of dollars in alleged back taxes and penalties. The announcement of the fines this week by Communist Party officials shed no light on her current whereabouts.

But the guy himself is not entirely clean:

Meng was previously deputy director of China’s armed police, a paramilitary force that is often deployed to the country’s most unstable areas, including Tibet, the border with North Korea and the far western province of Xinjiang.
 
News of Meng's apparent disappearance comes on the heels of an announcement by Chinese officials that Hollywood star Fan Bingbing, who also vanished without a trace several months ago, has been ordered to pay millions of dollars in alleged back taxes and penalties. The announcement of the fines this week by Communist Party officials shed no light on her current whereabouts.
Seeing a pattern emerging here. People from China who make a shedload of money in the West get 're-educated' and are then milked dry of their money. I think China is really desperate for tax money, presumably it's part of their 'last man standing' strategy.
 
Seeing a pattern emerging here. People from China who make a shedload of money in the West get 're-educated' and are then milked dry of their money. I think China is really desperate for tax money, presumably it's part of their 'last man standing' strategy.
People in international positions like that pays almost no taxes, but perhaps China does not approve of this.
 
People in international positions like that pays almost no taxes, but perhaps China does not approve of this.
They are still communists.
 
I think the Fan Bing Bing thing is about making a high-profile example, for the new social credit system*. The government is characterising people who engage in 'anti-society' behaviours as personally 'untrustworthy', and people who engage in 'pro-society' behaviours as 'trustworthy'. Fan's public apology after her disappearance is written in this language.

Fan BingBing said:
I have betrayed the trust of society, [...] There’s no Fan Bingbing without the good policies of the Party and the country


*Really scary, Orwellian stuff.
 
Why would Interpol make a Chinese guy their head? That seems a bit odd.
 
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