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"Skynet 2nd" Operation Recovered 799 Fleeing People in Eight Months

　　□ Our reporter's trainee reporter Zhao Jie Our reporter's reporter Dong Fanchao

　　From January to August this year, the "Skynet 2020" operation to recover stolen stolen goods recovered a total of 799 expatriates, of which 292 were recovered from ASEAN countries.

　　The "Skynet 2020" operation effectively reduced the stock, effectively contained the increase, consolidated and developed the overwhelming victory in the anti-corruption struggle, and achieved encouraging results.

　　In the context of the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the increasingly complex international environment, how is the progress of international fleeing and recovery of stolen goods?

What are the difficulties?

How to guarantee the intensity of escaping and recovering stolen goods?

With these questions in mind, a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily interviewed relevant experts.

Remarkable results in chasing fleeing stolen goods

　　"What else can I do when I go abroad?" "Fake your identity, and your family will be able to surreptitiously survive." "Death must die abroad. One day to escape is one day"...Faced with the fluke psychology of expatriates, March 30, The Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group's International Office for Fleeing and Recovery of Procurement made arrangements to launch the "Skynet 2020" operation.

　　On September 7, under the coordination and coordination of the International Office of Fleeing and Recovery for the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group, the Beijing Commission for Discipline Inspection overcame the impact of the epidemic and made careful arrangements to successfully persuade Cheng Xuan, a "red communication officer" who had fled for 22 years, to return to China and surrender to China. Recovery of stolen money.

　　Cheng Xuan was the former cashier of the business office of Sinopec Finance Company. He used his position to facilitate embezzlement of state-owned funds. He was suspected of corruption. He fled abroad in January 1998.

　　Since the launch of the "Skynet 2020" operation, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission has successively released news: "Hongtong personnel" Hai Tao returned to China to surrender the case; "Hongtong personnel" Liang Rongfu returned to China to submit the case; "Hongtong personnel", suspect Qu Zhi for duty crime Lin returned to the country and voluntarily returned the stolen money...Although the new crown pneumonia epidemic has swept the world, my country's anti-corruption international efforts to pursue and recover stolen goods have not been reduced.

　　"In the past two years, under the great attention and leadership of the Party Central Committee, the rule of law thinking and methods have been fully used, and the international pursuit of fleeing and dirtying has achieved remarkable results." Executive Director of the International Integrity and Rule of Law Research Center, part-time job of the G20 Anti-Corruption, Fleeing and Recovery Research Center Researcher Wang Wenhua said that with the introduction and revision of relevant laws, China’s international legislative system for fleeing and recovering stolen goods has gradually improved. The International Criminal Judicial Assistance Law and the revised criminal procedure law, criminal law, as well as the existing supervision law and extradition law have worked together. effect.

　　On the morning of August 27, the Intermediate People's Court of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province publicly sentenced Yao Jinqi, a "Hongtong Officer," in the first instance of bribery.

Yao Jinqi was guilty of accepting bribes and was sentenced to 6 years in prison and fined 3 million yuan. At the same time, the property and fruits of his bribery were recovered according to law.

Yao Jinqi said in court that he would obey the judgment and would not appeal.

　　Wang Wenhua told reporters that the Yao Jinqi case was the first criminal judicial assistance carried out in the name of the State Supervision Commission after the State Supervisory Commission was added to the United Nations Convention against Corruption as the central authority for judicial assistance. It was the first time that my country successfully extradited suspected crimes from an EU member state. people.

International cooperation is urgently needed to recover stolen goods

　　Xi Fei, the former deputy manager of China State Construction (Nanyang) Development Co., Ltd., absconded abroad on suspicion of corruption. His 4 properties with a total value of more than 40 million yuan were frozen in accordance with the law, and he secretly returned to China due to economic pressure. He was arrested in Haidian District, Beijing in April 2019. The Supervisory Committee found that it ended up on "Skynet."

　　The stolen money and stolen goods are the economic basis for expatriates to survive abroad, and timely finding and recovering them can effectively compress their living space outside.

According to statistics, from the establishment of the State Supervision Commission in March 2018 to June 2020, a total of 9.911 billion yuan was recovered nationwide.

　　"International recovery of stolen assets has always been more difficult than international recovery, because the flow of illegal funds is diversified, illegal proceeds are easily laundered and squandered, and the legal protection systems of personal property and the privacy systems of bank deposits are not consistent in various countries. "Wang Wenhua said.

　　Peng Xinlin, director of the International Anti-Corruption Education and Research Center of Beijing Normal University and a researcher at the G20 Anti-Corruption, Escape and Recovery Research Center, believes that compared with the absolute number of expatriates and the amount of corrupt assets transferred abroad, my country's recovery of corrupt assets is still limited.

Most of the "hundred red pass" personnel who have not been brought to justice have fled for a long time, and it is difficult to collect personal, documentary, and physical evidence.

Many people have obtained local legal status, and most of them are hard to bite. The more difficult it is to recover the stolen goods later.

　　Wang Wenhua told reporters that international cooperation is the only way to combat transnational corruption and other crimes.

The negotiation, conclusion and implementation of extradition treaties, criminal judicial assistance treaties, asset sharing agreements, etc. should be accelerated, and anti-corruption law enforcement cooperation mechanisms should be established with relevant countries.

Cultivating talents

　　During the interview, the reporter learned that my country has concluded 169 extradition treaties, judicial assistance treaties, and asset return and sharing agreements with 81 countries, and signed financial intelligence exchange cooperation agreements with 56 countries and regions.

　　After the National Supervisory Commission became the central agency of the United Nations Convention against Corruption in providing criminal judicial assistance to China, it established regular anti-corruption law enforcement cooperation consultation mechanisms with Australia and New Zealand, and signed agreements with Canada on the sharing and return of recovered assets. At the meeting of the US Anti-Corruption Working Group, it has successively signed anti-corruption law enforcement cooperation memorandums of understanding with Belarus, Laos, Vietnam, Argentina and other countries' anti-corruption law enforcement agencies, and signed a memorandum of understanding on anti-corruption cooperation with the United Nations for the first time.

　　China continues to consolidate the regional anti-corruption circle of friends, and anti-corruption is also a key area of ​​cooperation between China and ASEAN.

In May, "Hongtong personnel" Qiang Tao and Li Jiandong were arrested in Myanmar and sent back to the country. This is an important result of the international anti-corruption cooperation between China and ASEAN.

　　In 2021, the first special session of the United Nations General Assembly on anti-corruption will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Some experts believe that this fully reflects the international community’s attention and importance to the fight against corruption.

　　"Practice has proved that through special actions, a large number of corrupt elements who have fled for many years have been brought to justice, a large number of corrupt assets have been recovered, and the phenomenon of corrupt elements and the transfer of corrupt assets abroad has been curbed to a certain extent." The challenges faced by corruption in international pursuit of stolen goods and stolen goods should be woven into a “legal net” for fleeing stolen goods and stolen goods, improve the confiscation procedures of illegal gains, criminal default procedures and anti-money laundering legal systems, revise the extradition law in a timely manner, and realize the institutionalization of persuasive leniency And standardize, build an anti-corruption international long-term mechanism for fleeing and recovering stolen goods, especially a long-term, stable and normalized international cooperation mechanism, to reduce cooperation costs, and no longer restart negotiations on individual cases.

　　Wang Wenhua proposed that it is necessary to vigorously cultivate professional talents in anti-corruption international pursuit and recovery of stolen goods, and set up a specialized team for international anti-corruption tracing and recovery of stolen goods.

　　Peng Xinlin suggested that case-handling personnel should be familiar with the domestic law of tracing and recovering stolen goods, and have a thorough understanding of relevant international treaties, legal systems of key foreign countries, procedural requirements, and evidence standards, etc., in order to effectively perform the duty of anti-corruption international tracing and recovery of stolen goods.