{"id":13111,"date":"2020-01-21T17:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T08:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/21\/former-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-jailed-for-bribery"},"modified":"2020-01-21T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T08:11:03","slug":"former-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-jailed-for-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13111","title":{"rendered":"Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei jailed for bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former public security vice-minister caught up in Xi Jinping\u2019s anti-corruption campaign<\/p>\n<p>The former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/07\/china-admits-missing-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-is-under-monitoring\">who was detained on a visit to China in 2018<\/a>, has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for bribery in a case that has shaken the international police organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Meng \u2013 a former vice-minister of public security in China \u2013 is among a growing group of Communist party cadres caught in President Xi Jinping\u2019s anti-corruption campaign, which critics say has also served as a way to remove the leader\u2019s political enemies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/21\/former-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-jailed-for-bribery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former public security vice-minister caught up in Xi Jinping\u2019s anti-corruption campaignThe former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who was detained on a visit to China in 2018, has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for bribery in a case that h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}