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Input: FILE - In this July 4, 2017 file photo, Interpol President, Meng Hongwei, delivers his opening address at the Interpol World congress in Singapore. A French judicial official says Friday Oct.5, 2018 the... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this July 4, 2017 file photo, Interpol President, Meng Hongwei, delivers his opening address at the Interpol World congress in Singapore. A French judicial official says Friday Oct.5, 2018 the president of Interpol has been reported missing after traveling to China. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E,... (Associated Press) 
  
 PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the disappearance of the president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei (all times local): 
  
 2:55 p.m. 
  
 Interpol says it's aware of reports that President Meng Hongwei has been reported missing while making a trip to his native China. 
  
 The international law enforcement agency based in Lyon, France did not provide details about Meng's disappearance and said in a statement Friday: "This is a matter for the relevant authorities in both France and China." 
  
 Meng's wife reported Friday that she had not heard from him since the end of September, when he left Lyon. French authorities have launched an investigation. 
  
 The president of Interpol heads its executive committee. The police organization said in its statement "the day-to-day running of Interpol" is carried out by its secretary general, Jurgen Stock. 
  
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 1 p.m. 
  
 A French judicial official says the president of Interpol has been reported missing after traveling to his native China, 
  
 The official says Meng Hongwei's wife reported Friday that she had not heard from her 64-year-old husband since the end of September, when he left Lyon, France, where Interpol is based. The official said Meng did arrive in China. 
  
 The official spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of an ongoing investigation. 
  
 There was no further word on Meng's schedule in China or what prompted his wife to wait until now to report his absence. 
  
 Meng was elected president of Interpol in November 2016. His term runs until 2020. He has held a variety of positions within China's security establishment, including as a vice minister of public security — the national police force — since 2004. ||||| PARIS (Reuters) - French police are investigating the disappearance of Interpol chief, Meng Hongwei, who was reported missing after traveling from France to his native China, while his wife has been placed under police protection after receiving threats. 
  
 Meng’s wife contacted police in Lyon, the French city where the international police agency is based, after not hearing from him since Sept. 25, and after receiving threats by phone and on social media, France’s interior ministry said. 
  
 A person familiar with the investigation said the initial working assumption was that Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result. 
  
 “France is puzzled about the situation of Interpol’s president and concerned about the threats made to his wife,” the ministry said, adding that it was in contact with China. 
  
 Meng’s wife, who has remained in Lyon with their children according to police sources, was receiving protection, it said. 
  
 It was not clear why Meng, 64, who was named Interpol’s president two years ago, had traveled to China, which has not commented officially on his disappearance. 
  
 China’s Ministry of Public Security did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment and there was no mention of him in official media on Saturday. 
  
 There have been several cases in recent years of senior Chinese officials vanishing without explanation, only for the government to announce weeks or even months later that they have been put under investigation, often for suspected corruption. 
  
 Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post quoted an unnamed source as saying Meng had been taken for questioning as soon as he landed in China, but it was not clear why. 
  
 French police are investigating what is officially termed in France a “worrying disappearance”. 
  
 Interpol, which groups 192 countries and which is usually focused on finding people who are missing or wanted, said in a statement from its secretary general, Juergen Stock, that it had asked China for clarification. 
  
 “Interpol has requested through official law enforcement channels clarification from China’s authorities on the status of Interpol President Meng Hongwei,” Stock, who is in charge Interpol’s day-to-day running, said on Saturday. 
  
 ‘BIZARRE’ 
  
 Roderic Broadhurst, a professor of criminology at Australian National University, said Meng’s disappearance would be “pretty disconcerting” for people in international bodies that work with China, and could ultimately damage China’s efforts to develop cooperative legal assistance measures with other countries. 
  
 “It is bizarre,” Broadhurst said on Saturday, adding that China was likely to “brush off” any political damage that it would cause to Beijing’s involvement in international bodies. 
  
 “It’s a price that might have to be paid, but I guess they would see that as a cost worth bearing,” Broadhurst said. 
  
 Presidents of Interpol are seconded from their national administrations and remain in their home post while representing the international policing body. 
  
 Meng is listed on the website of China’s Ministry of Public Security as a vice-minister, but lost his seat on its Communist Party Committee in April, the South China Morning Post reported. 
  
 Meng has almost 40 years’ experience in criminal justice and policing, and has overseen matters related to legal institutions, narcotics control and counter-terrorism, according to Interpol’s website. 
  
 Interpol staff can carry special passports to help speed deployment in emergency situations but that would not have given Meng any specific rights or immunity in his home country. 
  
 FILE PHOTO: INTERPOL President Meng Hongwei poses during a visit to the headquarters of International Police Organisation in Lyon, France, May 8, 2018. Jeff Pachoud/Pool via Reuters 
  
 When Meng was named Interpol’s president in Nov. 2016, human rights groups expressed concern that Beijing might try to leverage his position to pursue dissidents abroad. Beijing has in the past pressed countries to arrest and deport to China citizens it accuses of crimes, from corruption to terrorism. 
  
 At the time, Amnesty International called Meng’s appointment “at odds with Interpol’s mandate to work in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” ||||| Image copyright EPA Image caption Meng Hongwei was elected Interpol's head two years ago 
  
 France has opened an investigation into the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the Chinese head of the international police agency Interpol. 
  
 His family have not heard from him since he left Interpol HQ in the French city of Lyon for a trip back to China on 25 September, officials said. 
  
 "He did not disappear in France," a source close to the inquiry told AFP. 
  
 The South China Morning Post quotes a source as saying Mr Meng, 64, was "taken away" for questioning in China. 
  
 It is not clear why he was being investigated by "discipline authorities" or where he was being held, the Hong Kong-based newspaper adds. 
  
 Officials in China have so far made no public comments on Mr Meng, a senior Communist Party official there. 
  
 What is the French investigation looking at? 
  
 It was opened after Mr Meng's wife went to police to report her husband missing. 
  
 She was initially quoted by police sources as saying she has not heard from him since his departure on 29 September. 
  
 But the French interior ministry later said the correct date was 25 September. 
  
 "Exchanges with Chinese authorities continue," the ministry said. 
  
 "France is puzzled about the situation of Interpol's president and concerned about the threats made to his wife." 
  
 It did not provide any further details. 
  
 Has Meng Hongwei angered China? 
  
 Analysis by BBC Asia Editor Celia Hatton 
  
 Meng Hongwei's disappearance seems to fit in with a now familiar pattern among China's senior Communist Party officials. The official in question suddenly drops out of the public eye and an alarm is raised that the person is "missing", usually by members of the public. 
  
 Eventually, the party issues a terse statement that the official is "under investigation", the official is then booted from the party for "disciplinary infractions" and - eventually - a prison sentence is announced. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, well over a million party officials have been disciplined in some way. 
  
 Mr Meng's case is notable for a few reasons. First, his wife notified the French authorities after he had only been missing for a few days. Family members of missing party officials rarely, if ever, reach out to foreign authorities, in fear their relatives will face ever greater punishment. 
  
 Did the wife do this because she felt there was no other option? Also, at one time, China prized Mr Meng's lofty position at Interpol. 
  
 If he has really gone missing within the Chinese state apparatus, whom did he anger, or what could he have done for Beijing to willingly, and publicly, forfeit the top job at Interpol? 
  
 How has Interpol reacted? 
  
 In a statement, the organisation said it was aware of reports of the "alleged disappearance" of Mr Meng. 
  
 "This is a matter for the relevant authorities in both France and China," it said. 
  
 Interpol added that the secretary general - not the president - was in charge of the day-to-day running of the 192-member organisation. 
  
 As president, Mr Meng leads the Executive Committee, which provides the overall guidance and direction to Interpol. Mr Meng's term is scheduled to run until 2020. 
  
 Before taking over at Interpol, Meng Hongwei was deputy minister in charge of public security in China. 
  
 After his election human rights groups expressed concern that the move could help China pursue political dissidents who have fled the country. 
  
 Meng Hongwei 
  
 Elected as Interpol's president in November 2016 
  
 Scheduled to serve until 2020 
  
 Is a senior Communist Party official in China and has served as Chinese vice-minister of public security 
  
 Has 40 years of experience in criminal justice and policing 
  
 Mr Meng said at the time that he was ready to do "everything he could towards the cause of policing in the world". 
  
 Mr Meng has 40 years of experience in criminal justice and policing in China, notably in the fields of drugs, counter-terrorism and border control, according to Interpol. 
  
 Interpol can issue a red notice - an international alert - for a wanted person. 
  
 But it does not have the power to send officers into countries to arrest individuals or issue arrest warrants. |||||
Output:
Meng Hongwei's wife has reported him missing. If that sentence doesn't pack much punch for you, we'll rephrase it: The wife of the president of Interpol has reported him missing. Meng left France on Sept. 29 for a trip to his native China, and sources tell Reuters his wife hasn't heard from him since; the AP reports she contacted authorities in Lyon, where Interpol's HQ is located, on Friday. Interpol's take on what it refers to as an "alleged disappearance," per a statement: "This is a matter for the relevant authorities in both France and China." A French official confirmed that Meng did arrive in China. Meng is midway through a four-year term as president; Reuters points out he's largely a figurehead, with the agency's secretary general, Juergen Stock, running the show day-to-day. The BBC explains the president helms the Executive Committee, which directs the overall course Interpol takes.