Harsher rules to prevent lawless officials' flight

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"We should set up a more tight-knit and effective system to prevent lawless state functionaries¹ from fleeing overseas by improving policies concerning state personnel going aboard," said Gan Yisheng, vice² secretary of the Communist Party of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection³ (CCDI).

 

Gan made the remarks at a meeting held this week by the CCDI and the Ministry⁴ of Supervision⁵. Information from the meeting was revealed in a statement released Thursday via the ministry's website.

 

Calling for equal efforts in preventing suspected offenders⁶ from fleeing and pursuing escapees abroad, Gan urged related departments to focus on officials' registry records and the management of their licenses⁷ and documents.

 

In 2007, China first set up a mechanism⁸ aiming to ensure coordinated⁹ efforts from various departments to prevent state functionaries suspected of disciplinary violations¹⁰ or crimes from escaping overseas.

 

These departments have been working on keeping track of officials' overseas trips and their spouses¹¹ and children's emigration status. Other moves, including special investigations¹² on money laundering¹³ and transnational financial supervision, were also launched to prevent violators' overseas transfers of illegal proceeds.

 

Sending family members abroad is a usual move for under-suspicion officials before their own runaway¹⁴. For example, Zhou Jinhuo, former director of the Industry and Commerce Bureau of southeast China's Fujian Province, tried to flee overseas in June 2006, when he found himself being investigated by anti-graft agencies.

 

Zhou was caught in the southwest border province of Yunnan after police tracked a call in which he revealed his whereabouts. His wife had emigrated to the United States previously¹⁵.

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