Nabbing fugitives pays off in anti-graft fight

Sweeping victory is the key expression that was used to describe what China has achieved in its anti-graft campaign in the past years at the current third plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in Beijing.

This includes all-out efforts to hunt those corrupt elements seeking shelter in a foreign land, in which other countries have contributed to the success.

On Aug 23, 2018, the National Supervision Commission, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the ministries of foreign affairs and public security, jointly released a notice urging those corrupt fugitives overseas to hand themselves in. In the five months until the end of 2018, 441 such fugitives from 46 countries and regions had been brought back, and among them, 165 surrendered themselves. Some of them were on the Interpol Red Notice list.