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A notorious economic fugitive who thought he had escaped arrest in a multimillion-dollar fraud case has finally been caught. On April 9， the absconder， identified only by his surname Hu， was extradited to China from Greece under an anti-graft operation. Codenamed Fox Hunt 2015， it hunts down corrupt officials and economic crime suspects who have fled the country， and recovers stolen assets.
Hu was former head of the Quzhou Baitai Group in east China’s economically developed Zhejiang Province. In April 2013， he fled to Cyprus with his family and over 40 million yuan （$6.45 million） of illicit money as well as another 4 million yuan （$645，000） of bank loans. The procuratorate of Longyou County in Zhejiang issued an arrest warrant and police began a manhunt for him.
In 2014， at the request of China’s Ministry of Public Security， the International Criminal Police Organization issued a red notice for Hu’s arrest. On November 23， the businessman was detained at Athens International Airport. The Ministry of Public Security requested his extradition and a Greek court allowed it.
Fox Hunt 2015 is part of Sky Net， a campaign launched by China’s Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group.
The campaign
On March 26， the group’s Fugitive Repatriation and Asset Recovery Office convened a meeting to launch the campaign. The initiative engages not only Communist Party of China （CPC） organs and law enforcement agencies， but also the central bank and diplomatic services.
The Ministry of Public Security is coordinating Fox Hunt 2015 to bring back suspects who have fled overseas after being implicated in corruption cases while the Supreme People’s Procuratorate is focusing on those suspected of duty-related crimes. The central bank， the People’s Bank of China， is entrusted with cracking down on illegal transfers of funds across borders through underground private banks and offshore accounts.
The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has tightened control of officials’ overseas travel documents and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has established a database of former government officials and Party members who have fled overseas. The central government and local governments have to report such fugitives through the system within 24 hours.
Sky Net is a continuation and expansion of Fox Hunt 2014. Under the latter， 680 suspects were apprehended from 69 countries and regions from July to December 2014. The number equals all the arrests made in the previous five years.
Hu was former head of the Quzhou Baitai Group in east China’s economically developed Zhejiang Province. In April 2013， he fled to Cyprus with his family and over 40 million yuan （$6.45 million） of illicit money as well as another 4 million yuan （$645，000） of bank loans. The procuratorate of Longyou County in Zhejiang issued an arrest warrant and police began a manhunt for him.
In 2014， at the request of China’s Ministry of Public Security， the International Criminal Police Organization issued a red notice for Hu’s arrest. On November 23， the businessman was detained at Athens International Airport. The Ministry of Public Security requested his extradition and a Greek court allowed it.
Fox Hunt 2015 is part of Sky Net， a campaign launched by China’s Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group.
The campaign
On March 26， the group’s Fugitive Repatriation and Asset Recovery Office convened a meeting to launch the campaign. The initiative engages not only Communist Party of China （CPC） organs and law enforcement agencies， but also the central bank and diplomatic services.
The Ministry of Public Security is coordinating Fox Hunt 2015 to bring back suspects who have fled overseas after being implicated in corruption cases while the Supreme People’s Procuratorate is focusing on those suspected of duty-related crimes. The central bank， the People’s Bank of China， is entrusted with cracking down on illegal transfers of funds across borders through underground private banks and offshore accounts.
The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has tightened control of officials’ overseas travel documents and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has established a database of former government officials and Party members who have fled overseas. The central government and local governments have to report such fugitives through the system within 24 hours.
Sky Net is a continuation and expansion of Fox Hunt 2014. Under the latter， 680 suspects were apprehended from 69 countries and regions from July to December 2014. The number equals all the arrests made in the previous five years.