China says unaware ex-Interpol president’s wife threatened
BEIJING — China is “not aware of the situation” surrounding reports that the wife of the detained Chinese former president of Interpol has been threatened, a foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
However, Lu Kang told reporters that it would be “natural” for Chinese consular officials to contact the wife of Meng Hongwei, who vanished after travelling to China late last month from France, where Interpol is headquartered.
Days later, China said Meng was under investigation for graft and possibly other crimes. His wife, Grace Meng, said she received a phone call from a man speaking Chinese who told her that a pair of “work teams” had been dispatched “just for you.”
Grace Meng has been placed under French police protection in the city of Lyon while they investigate whether Chinese agents had indeed been sent to possibly pose harm to her.