As the G20 throws the spotlight on global anti-corruption efforts, China has released fresh data on its progress in capturing former officials accused of fleeing abroad with billions in public money.
Of the arrested suspects, 162 were connected with cases involving 10 million yuan ($1.6 million), says the Ministry of Public Security.
China has launched its latest campaign to capture corrupt officials who have fled overseas and recover their dirty assets.
The repatriation of suspects and recovery of illicit money are the focus of the Fox Hunt operation this year aimed at seizing corrupt officials and economic fugitives who flee China.
A former official and a businessman, suspected of bribery, were taken back to China Saturday after about three months of exile in Laos.
President Xi Jinping told Party committees at all levels on Tuesday to support judicial departments to independently exercise judicial rights, coordinate with them and create a favorable environment for the departments to carry out their duties.
China will strengthen supervision of assets that corrupt officials transfer abroad illegally through gambling houses in Macao.
China and the United States will enhance law enforcement cooperation to nab Chinese corrupt officials who are still at large.
China's disciplinary watchdog opened a new "whistle blowing channel" on Tuesday, to help facilitate international support of its ongoing campaign to repatriate fugitive corrupt officials.
China announced a major breakthrough in its Operation Fox Hunt on Thursday with about 400 economic-crime fugitives now back on home soil.
Chinese police have seized 428 fugitives suspected of committing economic crimes in an international manhunt that began in July, the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
France is ready to help China track down people suspected of corruption who may be on French soil, according to a French justice ministry official.
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