More fugitives brought back from overseas

China has brought back more fugitives and recovered more illegal assets from overseas this year due to a massive anti-corruption campaign, the country’s leading anti-graft watchdog said.

In the first 10 months of 2019, 1,634 fugitives suspected of corruption-related crimes were brought back to China, up 69 percent yearon-year, and about 2.95 billion yuan ($420 million) of ill-gotten gains was retrieved, up 288 percent, the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group’s office for repatriating fugitives said in a news release issued on Dec 9, which was International AntiCorruption Day.

Of the total, 741 fugitives were members of the Communist Party of China and government officials, up 201 percent year-on-year.