2 suspected of bilking fugitive out of 20m yuan

China's most-wanted fugitive Guo Wengui was cheated out of 20 million yuan ($2.9 million) by two fraudsters, one of them pretending to be a relative of senior officials and posing as a senior military officer, police said.

The other fraudster used a shell company to do his cheating, police said.

The two suspects, Zhao Lixin and Ge Changzhong, were detained by police on fraud charges in June. Song Jun, the intermediary between Guo and the two men, also was arrested in June in a separate case involving suspected personal information infringement.