Bus stop the last stop for trafficker fugitive
By Alice Zhang |
November 25, 2010, Thursday
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ONE of China's most-wanted human traffickers has been caught by police in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Xiong Jianqiao was involved in a gang that abducted and traded more than 30 women and children, including several babies, across the country.
Police nabbed the 47-year-old fugitive at a bus stop in Linshui County on October 4, China Central Television reported yesterday.
Xiong, a native of Yuechi County, became a core member of a human trafficking gang that already had 13 members in 2002 after he had served a prison sentence for theft. According to Xiong, the group had abducted and sold at least 30 women and children in Sichuan, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Shandong and Henan provinces from 2002 to this year.
Parents of 10 kidnapped children have been contacted while police are still searching for the rest. Many of the victims were stolen or abducted when they were just days old, which made it difficult for police to find their family members.
The gang's other members had all been caught by Yuechi police by this year.
Xiong was one of 10 human traffickers listed as the highest class-A fugitives by the Ministry of Public Security in September.
So far, police have detained six suspects on the list and are hunting for the other four.
As of September, more than 2,200 human trafficking gangs had been broken up with some 15,000 suspects arrested after the Ministry of Public Security launched a nationwide crackdown last April.
A total of 1,238 human traffickers received sentences from five years in jail to death from January to July.
China is committed to a "zero tolerance policy," said a spokesman for China's Supreme People's Court.
More than 10,000 women and 5,800 children had been freed by September, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Police have been able to help more than 800 children be reunited with their families since China established a nationwide DNA database.
Xiong Jianqiao was involved in a gang that abducted and traded more than 30 women and children, including several babies, across the country.
Police nabbed the 47-year-old fugitive at a bus stop in Linshui County on October 4, China Central Television reported yesterday.
Xiong, a native of Yuechi County, became a core member of a human trafficking gang that already had 13 members in 2002 after he had served a prison sentence for theft. According to Xiong, the group had abducted and sold at least 30 women and children in Sichuan, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Shandong and Henan provinces from 2002 to this year.
Parents of 10 kidnapped children have been contacted while police are still searching for the rest. Many of the victims were stolen or abducted when they were just days old, which made it difficult for police to find their family members.
The gang's other members had all been caught by Yuechi police by this year.
Xiong was one of 10 human traffickers listed as the highest class-A fugitives by the Ministry of Public Security in September.
So far, police have detained six suspects on the list and are hunting for the other four.
As of September, more than 2,200 human trafficking gangs had been broken up with some 15,000 suspects arrested after the Ministry of Public Security launched a nationwide crackdown last April.
A total of 1,238 human traffickers received sentences from five years in jail to death from January to July.
China is committed to a "zero tolerance policy," said a spokesman for China's Supreme People's Court.
More than 10,000 women and 5,800 children had been freed by September, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Police have been able to help more than 800 children be reunited with their families since China established a nationwide DNA database.
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