MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. Russia’s Alexander Prokopchuk, who ran in the elections for the chief of the global police organization Interpol, will continue working as Interpol’s Vice-Chair for Europe, Official Spokeswoman for the Russian Interior Ministry Irina Volk told TASS on Wednesday.

"During the last day of the General Assembly’s work the elections for Interpol’s governing bodies were held. Alexander Prokopchuk took part in them as a candidate. Under the vote results, Kim Jong Yang from South Korea became the new president of the organization," Volk said.

Prokopchuk, the chief of the Russian Interior Ministry's National Central Bureau of Interpol, who has served as Interpol’s Vice-Chair for Europe since 2016, will continue fulfilling his duties, she said.

"His work, as earlier, will focus on enhancing Interpol’s positions in the international police community and increasing the effectiveness of the organization’s activity," the spokeswoman noted.

South Korea’s Kim Jong Yang was elected president of Interpol for a two-year term on Wednesday. Since October, Kim Jong Yang, 57, had served as acting Interpol president after the dismissal of the former chief Meng Hongwei from China. On September 29, Meng was detained in China on corruption charges.

Two main candidates to replace him were Kim Jong Yang and Russia’s Alexander Prokopchuk. On Monday, a group of US senators from both parties made public an open letter to US President Donald Trump, asking him to influence members of the Interpol General Assembly in order to prevent Russian national Prokopchuk from becoming the new Interpol head.

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the US senators’ letter calling for preventing Russian candidate Prokopchuk from being elected Interpol chief as a vivid example of pressure and election meddling.

Interpol, established in 1923, is the world’s largest international police organization, with 194 ·member-states.