Interpol's lost someone - I'm glad!

I predicted that there might be problems with Interpol's choice of a senior Chinese Security official as its head and so there is (see link below). However even my bizarre imagination could not have predicted this twist.

Interpol boss Meng Hongwei has been disappeared. Some may think this is poetic justice to a man who inflicted the same fate on thousands of Tibetans Uighurs and other minority groups in China but the icing on the cake is that Interpol is so shallow even it doesn’t want to help track down its boss.

Most people believe that Interpol is a sort of ‘UN’ of policing in fact it was just a ‘congress’ of police forces in the 1920s that like ‘topsy’ grew and grew.

It's been mired in controversy periodically since then not least when it was run for several years by Nazi’s like Reinhard Heydrich and Arthur Nebe - take it from me not nice people.

After the war Interpol refused to help in the hunt for Nazi fugitives because it was deemed ‘political’ . However its political sensitivities did not stop it helping Spanish and French police hunting so 'separatists' or its listing of Irish Republicans periodically.

Interpol has often been the centre of controversy and the organisation was criticised in a BBC documentary by awarding winning journalist John Sweeney for its involvement in a case relating to two Belarusian men who were subsequently executed by the totalitarian State. Every indication is that the two men were innocent and their execution was politically motivated.

It’s bookkeeping is also if you will forgive the pun a closed book and indeed as DOI of the Celtic League I sort for several years to establish where one could get access to its annual accounts and who exactly pays what to enable its functioning. A summary is published but the minutes of the organisation are secret.

When it comes to the norms Interpol seems to be above all bothersome International standards such as accountability prompting funding scandals like the FIFA one a few years ago.

All in all I’m glad that Meng Hongwei has disappeared as his shadowy departure may yet focus media attention on this curious International body.

Link 2016:

https://www.celticleague.net/news/human-rights-worry-as-former-chinese-s...

Image: Interpol boss Meng Hongwei ‘disappeared’ - poetic justice?

BERNARD MOFFATT