Interpol has elected South Korean Kim Jong-yang as its president, defying Russian efforts to install a Kremlin-backed official to lead the global police agency.
The selection of the South Korean police official will be greeted with relief by Western politicians and human-rights groups who had raised the alarm about the other main contender for the job, Maj. Gen. Alexander Prokopchuk. They worried that the veteran Russian Interior Ministry official could facilitate the Kremlin’s use of Interpol warrants to go after political opponents.
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