Police hunt for fugitives who fled with cash

Police are launching an operation to track down corrupt officials and others who have fled abroad with illegally obtained financial assets, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Tuesday.

The effort will continue until December, said Liu Jinguo, the vice-minister of the ministry.

"The pursuit is closely related to social fairness," he said. "Some corrupt officials are at large abroad and have taken lots of illegal assets, and we will boost our efforts to nail them down."