Beijing: China's difficulties in bringing home graft suspects who fled abroad have prompted tighter measures against illegal moves of capital and people beyond its borders, the government said yesterday.
The People's Bank of China and the Public Security Ministry have cracked down on the use of offshore companies and underground transfers of capital this year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said. "Preventing one person from fleeing abroad is to a certain degree the same as recovering one, so we must unceasingly increase efforts to prevent escape," said Liu Jianchao, head of the graft agency's international cooperation bureau.
At the same time as weaving a web overseas, 'Sky Net' must build a dam to keep individuals from moving overseas, the agency said on its website. It was referring to a programme dating from 2014 that has drawn on the resources of several Chinese agencies to track and repatriate corrupt officials and their plunder.
Fewer suspects left China in 2016 than last year, when returning suspects for the first time exceeded those who left, the agency said, but gave no figures.
