MPs will urge the Home Secretary to intervene over Russia's "abuse" of Interpol to target a prominent British critic of Vladimir Putin.

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.

The call comes after Mr Browder was arrested by Spanish police last week while in Madrid preparing to give evidence about corrupt money flowing into the country.

The US-born financier, has led a worldwide campaign for sanctions against Russians guilty of human rights abuses, since his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was found dead in a Russian prison in 2009, in what the UK government labelled an "atrocious murder".