mo4ch:>'Fox in henhouse': US senators urge nations not to vote for 'Kremlin candidate' as head of Interpol | Mo4ch News
With the vote for the next Interpol chief scheduled for tomorrow, fired-up hawkish US senators are afraid that other nations might help the Kremlin by electing a Russian candidate, so they are pushing for a vote against him.Electing Major General of the Russian police Aleksandr Prokopchuk as the head of Interpol is "akin to putting a fox in charge of a henhouse," four US senators said in a statement, released on Monday.The position in question became vacant after Interpol's President Meng Hongwei was detained in his homeland China, pending a corruption investigation. The new president is due to be elected in Dubai, UAE, on Wednesday. US lawmakers, meanwhile, in a preemptive move decided to dissuade delegates from voting for a Russian candidate.Republicans Roger Wicker and Marco Rubio, along with their Democratic colleagues, Jeanne Shaheen and Chris Coons, argue that Moscow "routinely abuses" Interpol, using it for "settling scores and harassing political o…