(9 Oct 2018) The wife of the former Interpol president who disappeared in China revealed that she had received a threatening phone call warning of agents coming for her - but said she would keep fighting for information about her husband's fate.
In her first one-on-one interview since Meng Hongwei went missing, Grace Meng denied bribery allegations against her high-profile husband, and told The Associated Press that speaking out about his disappearance was placing her "in great danger."
Meng Hongwei - who is also China's vice minister of public security - vanished while on a trip home to China late last month.
A long-time Communist Party insider with decades of experience in China's sprawling security apparatus, the 64-year-old is the latest high-ranking official to fall victim to a sweeping purge against allegedly corrupt or disloyal officials under President Xi Jinping's authoritarian administration.
Speaking to the AP late Monday at a hotel in Lyon, France, where Interpol is based, Grace Meng said her husband had been gone for more than a week on a trip to China when she got a threatening call on her mobile phone from a man speaking in Mandarin.
In a debrief interview, AP correspondent John Leicester said it was remarkable for Grace Meng to come forward.
"She feels that she's now living under great danger," he said.
He added that the disappearance of Meng Hongwei while on a trip to China showed that China "didn't really care" about the damage it was doing to its reputation around the world.
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