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    U.S. Deports More Criminal Suspects to China

    U.S. Deports More Criminal Suspects to China

    By Dow Jones Business News, September 24, 2015, 05:15:00 PM EDT
    By James T. Areddy

    SHANGHAI--For the second time in a week, U.S. authorities deported a group of criminal suspects to China, the latest sign of law-enforcement cooperation between the governments despite the absence of a formal extradition treaty.

    A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said eight people were deported to China on Thursday but didn't release their names. "These individuals are among ICE's priorities for immigration enforcement due to their serious criminal histories," she said.


    In heavy media coverage in the China's government-run media on Thursday, local authorities named only one person: Kuang Wan Fang, a figure in a well-known case of alleged embezzlement at state-owned Bank of China Ltd.

    A U.S. court seven years ago convicted Ms. Kuang along with others in a scheme to bilk the bank of $485 million and launder the money through casinos and the U.S. financial system.


    A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing confirmed Ms. Kuang "was removed from the United States via immigration proceedings" and returned to China.


    Ms. Kuang, also known as Wendy, was once a naturalized U.S. citizen before authorities determined she had lied about her marital status to qualify. She couldn't be reached for comment and it was unclear whether she has a lawyer.


    A statement from China's anti-corruption agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said authorities in the southern province of Guangdong, where Ms. Kuang landed aboard a private jet on Thursday and where the bank theft took place, would investigate her for suspected criminal acts of corruption and bribery. Photos and video on state television showed her in police custody but without handcuffs and wearing street clothes.


    Ms. Kuang was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted in the U.S. in 2008 on various charges associated with the bank theft during the 1990s at a branch in the city of Kaiping, according to statements published earlier by the U.S. Justice Department. She had been married to a branch manager of the bank who was among those convicted in the U.S. and who is currently serving a 25-year sentence there.


    The Kaiping embezzlement case was an embarrassment to Chinese financial system regulators because it came amid a spate of similar thefts by insiders at the country's banks.

    Another person involved in the Kaiping case, Yu Zhendong, was returned to China in 2004 by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a deal that allowed him to serve his prison sentence in China. He was the last person the U.S. deported to China until last week.


    With a full-bore anticorruption drive at home, Beijing has launched a determined effort to track suspects of financial and other corruption related crimes who have fled the country and pledged to work with other nations to win their return to face justice.


    In a speech in Seattle on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his government was ready to cooperate closely with the international community in fighting corruption and tracking fugitives.


    "The Chinese people look to the U.S. for support and coordination so that corrupt elements will be denied an overseas safe haven," he said.


    The U.S. and other Western countries have often declined to deport such people due to concerns about how they might be treated by China's justice system. Still, Beijing has increasingly reported successes, including the deportation of a corruption suspect in recent days by Spanish authorities.


    U.S. officials have also signaled a more cooperative line by saying that violations of U.S. law, including lying on federal forms, could be grounds for removing Chinese nationals from the U.S.


    Thursday's action follows the announcement late last week, by authorities in the U.S. and China, of the deportation of a man facing corruption charges tied to a case against his sister, a former Chinese government bureaucrat who remains in a U.S. prison awaiting deportation.


    At the time, U.S. authorities also said they deported seven other Chinese citizens, who returned to China on the same chartered flight as the man. The seven had been ordered removed from the U.S. for criminal activities, the U.S. authorities said, without specifying the circumstances. Chinese authorities have declined to answer questions about the other seven.


    A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, on Thursday described Ms. Kuang's deportation as "another important action taken by China and the U.S." But when asked about U.S. efforts to tie cooperation on repatriating fugitives wanted in China to Beijing accepting more than 38,000 people U.S. officials say are Chinese citizens living illegally in the U.S., Mr. Hong said, "We should adopt a universal standard instead of a double standard."


    Write to James T. Areddy at james.areddy@wsj.com



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