'Solid evidence' will be sent to break US fugitive gridlock

Law enforcement officers are expecting to bring more fugitive corruption suspects to trial from their hideouts in the United States, now that authorities are offering US counterparts "more solid evidence", a senior Ministry of Justice official said.

Such evidence, prepared to better meet the requirements of the US justice system, is expected to break the gridlock of technicalities that has been the biggest obstacle to law enforcement cooperation between the two countries, said Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director-general of the ministry's Judicial Assistance and Foreign Affairs Department.

Zhang told China Daily that, apart from information about the fugitives' likely whereabouts, Chinese law enforcement authorities will provide through legal channels a sound report about the suspects' illicit activities back home and the amount of funds they might have transferred abroad, to form a "complete chain of evidence".