Controls cut number of officials on the run
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THE number of corruption suspects fleeing China in the past four years has fallen dramatically as the government steps up controls on things like passport issuance for officials, the Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said yesterday.
China has pursued an overseas search dubbed Operation Fox Hunt for corrupt officials and business executives who have fled abroad with their assets, part of the war on deep-seated corruption.
In a lengthy statement offering rare details of the behind-the-scenes action taken, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said prevention was just as important as efforts to get back those already abroad.
In 2014, 101 officials fled abroad, in 2015 the number fell to 31, while last year only 19 escaped, it said.
It attributed the fall to strengthened measures, especially against those whose entire families are already overseas, like tighter passport controls and restrictions on moving money offshore.
In 2015, authorities published a list of 100 of the most wanted corruption suspects who had been targeted with an Interpol red notice, many living in the United States, Canada and Australia.
The commission said that so far 40 have returned to China, most of whom had been persuaded to give themselves up.
A poster featuring pictures of the 100 most-wanted has a large red stamp reading, in English, “arrested” across the faces of those back in China.
The commission said persuasion to return was a way to “persuade and educate” them to come back to China to “accept handling.”
The war on corruption at home saw China’s state prosecutor formally indicted the former head of the national bureau of statistics, Wang Baoan, yesterday, accusing him of abuse of power and bribery, the next step in the case against him since he was sacked for graft last year.
Wang is accused of taking advantage of his posts of assistant and vice finance minister as well as head of the statistics bureau to seek benefits for others, and illegally accepting a huge amount of money and property either by himself or through “specially related persons.”
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