“Interpol, choosing Major General Alexander Prokopchuk as his new president, is like launching a fox into a chicken coop,” said a document published on the website of Senator Roger Wicker.
According to American politicians, the Russian side uses Interpol "for settling accounts and harassing political opponents."
Earlier it became known that the Ukrainian authorities also opposed the nomination of Prokopchuk’s candidacy for the position of head of Interpol.
The Times called him a favorite in the fight for this post.