BEIJING — The former head of Interpol, a Chinese bureaucrat at the missing persons’ bureau who himself went missing in China, has been stripped of all his positions and expelled from the Communist Party, the party watchdog said Wednesday. His wife, Grace Meng, contacted the French authorities a week later to report her husband missing. Interpol put out a statement saying it had accepted Meng’s resignation and a South Korean was chosen to replace him. As head of Interpol, Meng had power over this process, and also could help Beijing find human rights advocates criticizing Xi’s government from abroad. Before Xi’s arrival, Grace Meng had sent Macron a letter, urging him to raise her husband’s case with Xi.

Source: National Post March 27, 2019 18:22 UTC