Xi’s anti-graft campaign scans 10.1ml officials

Beijing: Also ahead of the today’s meeting Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), released a trove of statistics on anti-graft, saying that 1.01 million officials have been investigated for graft from 2013 to last month in the drive launched by Xi. Experts said China’s anti-corruption campaign is a political accomplishment for the Party and is the key to maintaining the Party’s leadership, state-run Global Times reported. Statistics from the Ministry of Public Security said that 409 fugitives were apprehended overseas during operation ‘Fox Hunt’ in 2016, 15 of whom were on the list of the 100 most-wanted. More corrupt officials are attempting to transfer assets abroad before fleeing, and ‘Fox Hunt’ is a way to arrest that trend, part of a larger campaign codenamed ‘Sky Net’ that combines government, Party, law enforcement agencies, the central bank and diplomatic services, Xinhua reported.      –PTI