Eli Lake, Columnist

Don’t Let Russia Lead Interpol

The international law-enforcement organization is dangerously close to losing its legitimacy.

November 20, 2018 at 7:00 AM UTC

Corrected

November 20, 2018 at 3:00 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Nice lobby, but what about the organization?
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Imagine an alternative history of New York City in which John Gotti becomes police commissioner and obtains arrest warrants for the U.S. attorneys who prosecuted the Gambino crime family. Something like that is on the verge of happening to the international law-enforcement organization known as Interpol.

On Wednesday, delegates to Interpol’s annual convention will be casting votes on its next president after China disappeared its last one, Meng Hongwei, in September. Meng’s wife says she has not heard from him since he flew to Beijing two months ago, and she fears he is dead.