Another on 100 most-wanted fugitive list turns himself in
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A former employee of a state-owned newspaper who figured among China’s 100 “most-wanted” fugitives has returned from the United States to turn himself in, the top anti-graft body said yesterday, as China mapped out its strategy on fugitives in 2017.
Last year, China brought back more than 1,000 people and assets of 2.4 billion yuan (US$347 million) after launching its “Sky Net” campaign in 2014 to target corruption suspects who had fled overseas and the illicit funds they spirited out.
In the campaign’s latest victory, China has succeeded in bringing back Wang Jiazhe, who fled to the US in 2000 amid allegations of contract fraud while working for the newspaper in the northeastern province of Liaoning, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said.
Wang, 56, returned thanks to the efforts of “Sky Net,” the commission said in a statement on its website.
As part of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign, China published a list of 100 most-wanted fugitives in April 2015, all subject to Interpol red notice arrest warrants.
Wang is the 39th fugitive on the list to return, the graft body said, without giving details, such as whether US law enforcement provided assistance.
In a separate statement, the commission said this year’s “Sky Net” campaign would focus on prevention and better global cooperation, including aligning some criminal laws with international laws.
“Preventing one person from fleeing, in some respects, is to get a person back,” it said.
In November, China’s most-wanted corruption suspect Yang Xiuzhu, a former deputy director of the construction bureau in the eastern city of Wenzhou, ended 13 years on the run by returning from the United States.
China has been trying to drum up international cooperation in its hunt for suspected corrupt officials who have fled overseas since Xi began his war on deeply-rooted graft more than four years ago.
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