Suspected swindlers return from Cambodia
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TWO people suspected of involvement in a massive swindle have given themselves up and returned to China from Cambodia after being at large for 10 years, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.
The case dates back to July 2004 when police in north China’s Shanxi Province said more than 30 suspects, including the two, surnamed Zhu and Kong, persuaded 35 groups to deposit funds in designated banks with the promise of high interest rates, then conspired with bank staff to transfer the money into their own pockets, the ministry said.
Between January 2002 to July 2004, 13 branches of five banks were involved in 73 cases, leading to “huge economic losses.”
Police said Zhu and Kong fled the country after they took part in a 150 million yuan (US$24.4 million) swindle in July 2003.
In December 2004, Interpol issued a Red Notice for their arrest and, over the past 10 years, police on China’s mainland had cooperated with their counterparts from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Macau and had seized six suspects.
“Under huge pressure from police authorities, Zhu made contact and said the two were willing to negotiate with police in Cambodia to give themselves up,” the ministry said.
Zhu and Kong returned to China in July and are now in Taiyuan, Shanxi’s capital.
Figures from the ministry show that 18 suspects in major economic crimes who fled the country have been arrested and returned since a special operation was launched on July 22 to hunt down corrupt officials and criminal suspects hiding overseas.
The operation, dubbed Fox Hunt 2014, is intended to block the last route of retreat for corrupt officials at a time when China’s major crackdown on graft is leaving little room for abuse of power.
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