The Telegraph reports that MPs will urge the Home Secretary to intervene over Russia’s “abuse” of Interpol to target a prominent British critic of Vladimir Putin.
For a brief time Wednesday, Bill Browder was in Spanish custody. The London-based businessman and vocal Kremlin critic had been arrested in Madrid on what Browder says was a Russian warrant issued through Interpol.
Formerly a major investor in Russia, Browder has spent the better part of a decade waging an international crusade against corruption in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government.
A cross-party group, including Tom Tugendhat, the chairman of the influential Commons foreign affairs committee, is writing to Sajid Javid to urge him to demand the suspension of Moscow’s access to the international body’s databases.
They are expected to warn that its participation in Interpol systems has allowed it to repeatedly request the arrest of Bill Browder, a campaigner against Russian human rights abuses.
