Interpol’s integrity has been put at risk over Russia’s attempts to force the international arrest of an arch critic of Vladimir Putin, a senior group of MPs have warned.

A parliamentary group has now requested that the head of Interpol come to Westminster to give evidence over concerns it's Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files is open to manipulation by the Kremlin.

In an open letter signed by cross-party MPs, they said they were “disturbed to learn” that Interpol is “entertaining Russia’s seventh request” for the arrest of Bill Browder, a an Anglo-American financier based in London.

An Interpol spokesperson said on Saturday it had not received the letter from MPs, but would " respond accordingly" when they had.

The Telegraph disclosed last week that Moscow prosecutors had lodged a new bid for an international arrest warrant to be issued against Mr Browder.

This newspaper also disclosed that a senior Russian prosecutor, who has been involved in the complaint against Mr Browder, has also been appointed to the five-member Interpol committee that vets criminal complaints.

The MPs’ letter sent to Jurgen Stock, Interpol’s secretary general, states: “Interpol’s acceptance of Russia’s repetitive requests for Mr Browder raises questions about Russia’s ability to abuse Interpol’s systems without consequences.”

The letter, written by the former Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell and co-signed by eight other MPs, says that Interpol’s reputation “will be destroyed if Interpol’s integrity is not robustly protected” and accuses Russia of attempting to use the agency to bring “politically-motivated cases”.

Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and former foreign office minister who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Russia, has written to Mr Stock requesting the Interpol boss give evidence in Westminster.

Mr Bryant said: “We have invited the head of Interpol to talk to us. I have a high regard for Interpol but I worry they are being played by Russia.”

Mr Browder has led a campaign against Putin’s regime in the wake of the death of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Russian police cell.

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Russian prosecutors have tried six times to use Interpol as a means to get Mr Browder arrested in a foreign country and is now trying a seventh time.

Interpol has now written to Mr Browder, informing him that Russia has made a fresh attempt to have an arrest warrant issued against him. Interpol will investigate the strength of the Russian request at meetings commencing on April 15.

The merits of the case will be decided by Interpol’s Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files and its Requests Chamber.

One of the five members is Petr Gorodov, who is also a deputy head in the prosecutor general’s office in Moscow.

Mr Gorodov’s name has appeared on a letter to authorities in Cyprus, requesting the country help Russia in its investigation against Mr Browder.

Mr Browder has told the Telegraph: “This is very serious. If I go to the wrong country and get arrested as a result of an Interpol red notice then I will be sent back to Russia and killed.”

Mr Browder has become a focal point of Mr Putin’s anger and was singled out by the Russian president at a press conference with Donald Trump last July.

Mr Browder angered the Kremlin by pushing through the Magnitsky Act in the US after his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten in a Russian cell. He later died following maltreatment.

The Magnitsky Act allowed US authorities to place sanctions on Russians linked to the death.

Mr Browder has subsequently been accused of tax evasion by Russian prosecutors and is even facing a criminal inquiry over the death of a Russian whistleblower who collapsed in mysterious circumstances while jogging outside his home in Surrey.

An Interpol spokesperson said: "An individual or member country can submit an application for revision of a decision of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files."

The Russian prosecutor’s office could not be reached for comment.