And the West fails: Putin Gets Interpol Under Control

Today, on Wednesday, delegates to the General Assembly of Interpol International Criminal Police Organisation, a co-ordinated body of law enforcement from 192 states, met in Dubai for the last day of the 87th session.

Kosovo eventually failed to join this organisation, which represents another failure and despair for diplomacy and our country. But, the main agenda was not Kosovo. It was the election of its new president, writes Periscope.

This president will replace Meng Hongwei, who in the quality of the president disappeared over the past month to reveal later that he had been arrested by China on corruption charges.

The main candidate for becoming the next Interpol president is Aleksandar Prokopchuk, a police general at Russia's Interior Ministry, who has led the Russian Bureau of Interpol for the past seven years. Prokopchuk's candidacy has been kept secret until last moments until the Kremlin made sure it had enough votes to choose it.

The British government has said Prokopchuk's victory has become unprecedented at this point.

Britain's human rights group, Fair Trials, has written Interpol strongly protesting this candidacy that “would not be appropriate for a country that has the record of breaking Interpol rules”.

With Putin's president, writes Periscope, the Kremlin would no longer have to abuse Interpol to achieve its goals; it would already have the organisation in its service.

Interpol has scary stories from the past. Between 1940 and 1945, this organization was led by three Nazis who were later declared war criminals: Reinhard Hedrich, Arthur Neve and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who had fearful stories about the murder of tens of thousands of Jews and the opening of concentration camps. /Periscopi