Suspected tax evader extradited from Peru
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CHINA has extradited its first criminal suspect from Latin America following eight years of negotiation, repatriating an alleged crude soybean oil smuggler from Peru who has been on the run for 18 years, according to the country’s customs bureau.
The General Administration of Customs said on its website that Huang Haiyong, evaded more than 700 million yuan (US$104.45 million) in taxes between 1996 to 1998 through selling 107,000 tons of smuggled crude soybean oil.
Huang and his two associates fled to the United Sates in 1998 and Interpol issued a global arrest warrant for Huang in 2001 at the request of Chinese authorities, the customs bureau said.
He was caught by Interpol in Peru in 2008 and the two countries began negotiating his repatriation, but Huang appealed against returning to China citing the death penalty and “risk of torture,” it said.
Photos published on the customs bureau website show Huang being escorted by police and being read his rights.
“This case again reflects the customs bureau’s attitude to fugitives, to ‘chase them until the end,’ to crackdown on any determination to smuggle. No matter where suspects flee to, they will be severely punished by law,” it said.
China has brought home more than 600 officials in a campaign dubbed “Operation Fox Hunt,” as part of a wider crackdown on graft.
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