China said that in the second half of 2018 it arrested 441 suspected criminals that had fled abroad.
Of these, 165 surrendered to Chinese law enforcement, according to the Central Discipline Inspection Committee (CDIC), the Communist Party corruption watchdog. Authorities did not say how the remaining 276 were apprehended.
This round of arrests began in August 2018, after Beijing said that public servants who had fled abroad would receive lighter punishments if they voluntarily returned to China.
An unknown number of individuals on the list had also had “red notice” arrest warrants issued by Interpol, the global law-enforcement organization, China said.
Ex-officials continue to be a focus of China’s anti-corruption efforts. Of the 441 arrested recently, 117 were public servants, CDIC said. In 2014, China announced that 6,694 allegedly corrupt officials had been arrested from 2008 to 2013.
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