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180 fugitives to face trial in China
     2014-October-31  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    AUTHORITIES in China have succeeded in getting extradited or persuading 180 economic fugitives to return to China and face trial since launching a six-month campaign called Fox Hunt in July, China Daily reported Thursday.

    The number of the fugitives being repatriated during the first 100 days of the Fox Hunt, a campaign targeting economic fugitives, especially corrupt officials who fled abroad with their illicit assets, is more than that of the whole year of 2013.

    The returned suspects include many allegedly corrupt officials who fled to more than 40 countries and regions.

    Among the fugitives, 104 were hunted down by the police and 76 were persuaded to return. Forty-four are suspected to be involved with ill-gotten assets of over 10 million yuan (US$1.6 million).

    According to the Public Security Ministry, some corrupt Chinese officials have fled to the United States, Canada, Australia and Southeast Asian countries in recent years, transferring assets worth many billions of dollars overseas through money laundering and underground sources.

    Economic fugitives can turn themselves in to the police, the procuratorate, the courts directly or through China’s embassies and consulates before Dec. 1, 2014.

    Fugitives who have confessed their crimes and returned to China voluntarily shall be given a lighter or mitigated punishment by law. Among them, those who actively retrieve and compensate the economic losses of the victims may get an even lighter sentence with lesser offenders receiving exemption from punishment.

    More corrupt Chinese officials are likely to be repatriated by an anti-corruption and transparency mechanism being worked on by 21 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies.

    U.S. senior official for APEC Robert Wang has said that the goal of the current work in the anti-corruption and transparency network is to increase the possibility or probability that illegally obtained funds or criminals that go across international borders will be returned and will be treated according to the rule of law in whichever country they came from.

    (SD-Agencies)

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