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The vote that catapulted Kim Jong Yang of South Korea over Russia’s Alexander Prokopchuk to be the next president of Interpol, at 101-61, was closer than it should have been. As the head of Russia’s National Central Bureau (NCB) since June 2011, and thus in charge of all Russian liaison with Interpol, Prokopchuk is personally responsible for Russia’s abuse of Interpol to harass dissidents, exiles, and politically inconvenient businessmen. The contest between Kim and Prokopchuk should have been no contest at all.
Understandably, all of the press coverage of this week’s meeting of the Interpol General Assembly in Dubai has focused on the possibility that Vladimir Putin’s candidate, Russian abuser-in-chief Alexander Prokopchuk, will be el
Interpol is not an international police agency. It’s a bulletin board on which notices are posted, and a communications system by which messages are sent. The board and the system have rules, the most important of which is that as required by Interpol’s Constitution they cannot be used for political, racial, religious, or military purposes. Interpol cannot stop its member nations, which are fully sovereign, from creating and prosecuting political offenses.