Procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China Cao Jianming delivers a work report during a plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 11, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Lee
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will step up its hunt for corrupt officials who have fled abroad, confiscate illegal assets of overseas fugitives and stop suspect offenders leaving the country, as it intensifies the fight against graft, state media said on Wednesday, citing the country's top prosecutor.
Cao Jianming, the head of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said China will "work more closely with judicial organs abroad to expand channels and measures to hunt those who have fled and to recover ill-gotten gains", the China Daily newspaper said.
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