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Six Chinese fugitives wanted for alleged economic crimes arrive under escort at Beijing Capital International Airport from Indonesia on Sunday. Photo: Xinhua
Six Chinese economic fugitives were extradited from Indonesia to China on Sunday morning in the first operation of its kind this year with Indonesian police, state television reported.
Chinese police also seized about 30 million yuan (HK$38 million) in cash and property, according to a China Central Television report.
Three of the fugitives were subject to Interpol "red notices" and one, identified only by the surname Chen, was wanted for alleged contract fraud involving around 10 million yuan, Xinhua reported.
Red notices are international requests issued by member countries through the organisation for the location and arrest of wanted persons "with a view to extradition".
State media revealed no further details on the fugitives.
The repatriation is the first this year with Indonesian authorities as part of "Fox Hunt", a campaign launched in July 2014 by Chinese authorities to pursue corrupt officials and economic criminals overseas. China also launched a multi-agency operation dubbed "Sky Net" in April to hunt down alleged economic fugitives overseas. The operations had netted around 1,000 suspects wanted for economic crimes, People's Daily, the Communist Party's flagship newspaper, said on Saturday.
But the Chinese authorities face hurdles hauling back the suspects, especially in countries where government troops are fighting rebels.
Liu Dong, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security's economic crimes division, told People's Daily that in one unspecified country a captured fugitive warned Chinese police that their car could not leave a rebel-controlled region because of his tight links with local officials.
Liu, who heads the Sky Net operation, said rebels chased the police vehicle on the way back to government-held territory.
"I hate to imagine what could have happened to us if we had been held up [in a rebel-controlled area]," he was quoted as saying.
Chinese authorities are also struggling to grapple with a lack of repatriation treaties with some of the popular destinations for mainland fugitives, such as the United States and Canada.
China has bilateral extradition treaties with 41 countries, including Indonesia. Most of those treaties are with countries in Asia.
In April, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's corruption watchdog, published a list of 100 wanted fugitives.
All of the suspects were subject to red notices and 40 were at large in the US, Beijing said.
Yang Xiuzhu, one of the 100 accused of embezzling more than 250 million yuan when she oversaw construction projects in Zhejiang , has been in police custody in the US since she entered the country using a fake passport last year.
Observers said that without formal extradition ties between China and the US, there were limited legal means of sending Yang back to Beijing.
Foxes and nets: China's massive overseas anti-graft manhunt
Staff Reporter
2015-06-21
Another six corruption suspects are brought back to Beijing from Indonesia under Operation Fox Hunt on June 21. (Photo/Xinhua)
China's massive overseas anti-graft manhunt has brought nearly 1,000 corruption suspects back to the country over the past year, reports the overseas edition of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.
The article highlights the two main campaigns launched by Beijing, Operation Fox Hunt and Operation Skynet. The first of the two, initiated last July, aims to pursue corrupt officials and economic criminals hiding overseas, while the second, introduced earlier this year, takes it a step further by coordinating various government departments and bodies in a multi-pronged attack on both the fugitives and those who help them. Fox Hunt involves more precise "point-to-point" missions, whereas Skynet is more about laying the foundations and casting a wider net across multiple points.
According to the report, investigators are now adopting more high-tech methods to help track down fugitives bold enough to return to China under false identities. In March, a suspect alleged to have escaped with more than 90 million yuan (US$14.5 million) back in 1997 was captured in Shanghai through big data analysis and facial recognition software. The identity of the suspect, Xie Renliang, was confirmed following a DNA test and a search of his personal belongings.
Similarly, Dai Xuemin, who escaped China in 2001 with 11 million (US$1.77 million) in illicit funds in 2001, was captured April in Anhui province using similar technology after the suspect returned to the country using a British passport.
The effectivess of techniques adopted by police have reportedly led to suspects giving up their lives on the run and turning themselves in. In late March, two corrupt officials from the northeastern metropolis of Tianjin decided to hand themselves over to authorities after they saw on the news that police had captured a key witness on the road from Laos to Vietnam.
Beijing has also increased cooperation with foreign governments to bring suspects to justice in indirect ways. Li Huabo, China's second-most wanted fugitive according to Interpol's red notice, was repatriated last month after first serving a sentence in Singapore — where he had been hiding since fleeing the mainland in 2011 — for owing S$5.45 million (US$4.1 million) of assets in the city state on evidence provided by Chinese authorities.
The US Justice Department also recently indicted Jianjun Qiao, the former director of a government grain storage facility in central China, and his ex-wife Shilan Zhao, accusing them of funneling stolen money into America and fraudulently obtaining US visas. The couple had allegedly stolen more than 700 million yuan (US$113 million) of public funds in 2011 before fleeing China.
The People's Daily article noted that regardless of what methods or tactics are employed by authorities, the point is that Chinese authorities will do whatever it takes to bring corrupt criminals to justice no matter where they hide.
Liu Dong, the director of the Operation Fox Hunt office, says while their team of 20 or so has shuffled personnel over the past year, the average age of investigators remain in the 30s and includes the "fresh blood" of those born after 1990. All are elite members selected by the Ministry of Public Security from key locations across the country, he added.
To be a "Fox Hunter," the report said, team members need to understand three things: how to investigate, the law, and foreign languages. They also need to have public security experience, be familiar with the paperwork, and be proficient in the domestic and foreign legal systems. Having experience with international cooperation and overseas authorities is also important, as is being in peak physical condition, given that investigators are required to fly out on short notice and often need to travel back and forth across the globe over three or four days. In 2014, the Operation Fox Hunt team conducted 70 missions in six months.
