Meet China’s 100 international most-wanted: a history professor, a driving instructor, and a government propaganda office cashier. Chinese graft-busters want you to know that one of them might be your neighbor.
On April 22, China’s dreaded Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) published the names and faces of 100 globe-trotting fugitives suspected of corruption, bribe taking, embezzling public funds, money laundering and other crimes. They mainly hail from cities or provinces along China’s wealthy eastern seaboard, including Shanghai and Beijing. The dirtiest province is Guangdong in the country’s south, which is home to 15 of these most-wanted. Twenty three women made the cut, including Yang Xiuzhu, a former construction bureau official from eastern China’s Zhejiang province who allegedly took some $40 billion in bribes before fleeing to Singapore and then the United States under a pseudonym in April 2003. Chinese state media reported in August 2010 that Yang owned a five-story building worth $5 million close to Times Square in New York City and that she was spotted in San Francisco not long after she went on the lam. The listincluded photos of each suspect and, significantly, the country or countries where each is believed to be hiding.
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