Man surrenders to cops after worldwide hunt
By Pan Zheng |
April 8, 2011, Friday
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THE husband of an alleged prostitution ringleader who sought refuge abroad returned to Chongqing yesterday and surrendered to police at the Jiangbei International Airport. He was holding a piece of paper that read "Surrender to Chongqing police" as he got off the plane.
Chang Liang and his wife Wang Wanning were accused of forcing more than 2,000 young women into prostitution. The tea house which they used as the base of their illegal activities was shut down by Chongqing police in late 2009, but the couple fled overseas.
Eleven others involved in the case received death penalties or jail terms ranging from 2 1/2 to 19 years. Wang Ziqi, Wang Wanning's sister, was sentenced to death last August after being found guilty of five criminal charges. She appealed but the Chongqing Higher People's Court upheld the death penalty ruling.
Chang and Wang were soon on the International Criminal Police Organization's wanted list as they allegedly fled to Austria and then the Philippines. They were caught on Wednesday in a restaurant in Manila's Chinatown district by police from China and the Philippines, a Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau spokesman said.
Close cooperation between Interpol and police officers in China, Austria and the Philippines led to Wednesday's successful arrest, the spokesman said.
Chang narrowly escaped on Wednesday as he happened to be outside when police came to arrest them. However, he felt helpless after his wife was taken away so he decided to surrender.
Chang Liang and his wife Wang Wanning were accused of forcing more than 2,000 young women into prostitution. The tea house which they used as the base of their illegal activities was shut down by Chongqing police in late 2009, but the couple fled overseas.
Eleven others involved in the case received death penalties or jail terms ranging from 2 1/2 to 19 years. Wang Ziqi, Wang Wanning's sister, was sentenced to death last August after being found guilty of five criminal charges. She appealed but the Chongqing Higher People's Court upheld the death penalty ruling.
Chang and Wang were soon on the International Criminal Police Organization's wanted list as they allegedly fled to Austria and then the Philippines. They were caught on Wednesday in a restaurant in Manila's Chinatown district by police from China and the Philippines, a Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau spokesman said.
Close cooperation between Interpol and police officers in China, Austria and the Philippines led to Wednesday's successful arrest, the spokesman said.
Chang narrowly escaped on Wednesday as he happened to be outside when police came to arrest them. However, he felt helpless after his wife was taken away so he decided to surrender.
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