Crushing Russian hope, Interpol elects Korean as new prez in snap polls

The president of Interpol is the head of the executive committee that oversees the global policing body

Interpol delegates elected South Korean Kim Jong Yang as the new president of the global policing body after international criticism of the possibility that rival Russian candidate Aleksander Prokopchuk might get the job.

Kim was selected Wednesday morning in a snap election organized at Interpol’s general assembly in Dubai following the arrest in China of former president Meng Hongwei last month. Interpol didn’t disclose on its website the margin of victory for the South Korean in the election, which was organized on a one country-one vote basis.

The election had become deeply political in recent days as US and other