Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-11-18
Chinese police have seized 288 suspects in an international manhunt beginning in July targeting corrupt officials and economic criminals that have fled the county, China's Ministry of Public Security said Monday.
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| One of the suspects escorted by police in Beijing, Sept. 27. (Photo/Xinhua) |
Chinese police have seized 288 suspects in an international manhunt beginning in July targeting corrupt officials and economic criminals that have fled the county, China's Ministry of Public Security said Monday.
Twenty-one of
the suspects have been at large for more than 10 years, the ministry said.
A total of
84 suspects were seized from developed countries such as the US, Canada, Japan
and Belgium.
Overall,
126 suspects turned themselves in. The ministry urged those still at large to
turn themselves in as soon as possible in order to seek lighter punishment,
giving a deadline of December 1 this year.
China is in
the middle of an anti-corruption campaign targeting both high-ranking
"tigers" and low-level "flies," the terms assigned to
different officials depending on rank and level of corruption.
The Fox
Hunt 2014 operation was launched in July to "block the last route of
retreat" for corrupt officials after the country's crackdown narrowed the
space for abuse of power.
China has
also helped forge a cross-border law enforcement network to strengthen
transnational anti-corruption cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) region, which was adopted by APEC leaders earlier this
month.
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