Two Chinese men who fled abroad after being suspected of corruption have returned home to face charges, China’s anti-graft watchdog said on Friday, the latest suspects caught up in a sweeping campaign by the country’s leadership to tackle graft.
One of the suspects was identified as Zhu Haiping (朱海平), general manager of Shenzhen Yuwei Industry Co, who fled to the US in 1998 after coming under suspicion of fraud, the Chinese Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on its Web site.
The second man, Guo Liaowu (郭廖武), a deputy manager of a company called Wuhan Iron and Steel Group Mining Co, fled to Australia in 2010 after being suspected of bribery, the commission said.
Both “chose to return to their country to give themselves up,” the commission said.
A spokeswoman for Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop said neither Bishop nor her department were aware of the circumstances of Guo’s return from Australia to China.
China has vowed to pursue an overseas search, dubbed Operation Fox Hunt, for corrupt officials and business executives and their assets.
It has been pushing for extradition treaties with various countries, but Western countries have been reluctant to help, not wanting to send people to a country where rights groups say mistreatment of suspects is a concern.
The commission said more than 381 corruption suspects had been repatriated from more than 40 countries.
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