Exclusive | Grace Meng, wife of fallen Interpol head Meng Hongwei, sues the police agency for ‘failing to assist her’
- Grace Meng asserts global policing body threatened her if she spoke out
- Suit seeks to determine whether the global institution “breached its obligations owed to my family”
The wife of the disgraced Interpol chief detained in China for corruption has launched a lawsuit against the global policing body at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, two of her lawyers confirmed to the South China Morning Post.
The latest twist to the high-profile disappearance of China’s first president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, follows his confession in a Chinese court to accepting more than US$2 million in bribes.
Grace Meng alleged that the global policing body had attempted to gag her, as she announced her legal action at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
“[Interpol] failed to protect and assist my family and it is complicit in the internationally wrongful acts of its member country, China,” Meng claimed in the press release.
“Despite INTERPOL’s threat for speaking out, I am announcing … that I have launched legal proceedings against INTERPOL at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague,” she said.
She added that a tribunal would be set up to ascertain Interpol’s claims that Meng’s disappearance was “only a matter for the relevant authorities in France and China”, or whether the global institution “breached its obligations owed to my family”.
