姜磊(照片/cgtn)一名被控腐败的中国逃犯周五返回中国,在新西兰逃亡11年后自首。中国汽车工业协会前执行副主席、62岁的蒋磊于2007年4月11日逃到新西兰,据中共中央纪委介绍。北京市西城区人民检察院于2007年6月18日批准了对蒋介石的逮捕,国际刑警组织于同年7月27日发出了红色通知。中国共产党周五发表的一份声明说,江泽民的回归再次表明,中国决心“追捕逃犯,没收他们的非法资产,不管他们逃到哪里”。今年8月,中国当局发布通知,鼓励海外逃犯在今年年底前回国认罪,寻求从宽处罚。
Jiang Lei [Photo/CGTN]

A Chinese fugitive accused of corruption returned to China on Friday to turn himself in after spending 11 years on the run in New Zealand.

Jiang Lei, 62, former executive vice-chairman of China Association of Automobile Manufactures, fled to New Zealand on April 11, 2007, according to the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

The people's procuratorate of Beijing's Xicheng district approved the arrest for Jiang on June 18 of 2007, and the Interpol issued a red notice on him on July 27 the same year.

A CCDI statement released on Friday said Jiang's return once again shows China's resolute determination to "hunt down the fugitives and confiscate their illicit assets no matter where they escape".

In August, Chinese authorities released a notice to encourage overseas fugitives to return and confess their crimes by the end of this year to seek for a lenient punishment.