International fugitive pursuit achieves prominent results
More than 2,442 fugitive officials who absconded with 8.54 billion yuan (1.23 $) have been repatriated from more than 70 countries and regions, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China.
The leadership with President Xi Jinping as a core has been carrying out fugitive pursuit through international anti-corruption cooperation and large numbers of fugitive officials have been located and detained.
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Yang Xiuzhu, former vice-mayor of Wenzhou, comes back to China for confession after thirteen years abroad as a result of planning and coordination of the international fugitive pursuit office of the Central Anti-corruption Group. [Photo by Yingang/ Xinhua] |
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A former official surnamed Chen (front right) is escorted in Beijing Capital International Airport. Through cooperation between French police and the Chinese Embassy in France, Chen was extradited from France to China. This is the first successful case of extradition between China and France after a Sino-French extradition treaty took effect in 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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Vietnam police hand over an economic suspect surnamed Chen（front left）to Chinese police in Hanoi Noi Bai International Airport. [Photo by Le Yanna/ Xinhua] |
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Procuratorate officials have announced the arrest of Yang Jinjun (second from the left), suspected of bribery and corruption. By coordination between Chinese and American judicial, law-enforcement and diplomatic departments Yang was repatriated to China after fourteen years of exile in the US. [Photo by Yingang/ Xinhua] |
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Chinese police escort economic criminal suspects as they disembark an aircraft. Under close cooperation between the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia and Indonesian police, six economic criminal suspects surnamed Lv, Chen, Lin, Wang, Zhang and Fu have been escorted from Indonesia to China. [Photo by Li Mingfang/Xinhua] |
