FBI Seized Wanted Chinese Criminal, Coordinated Legal Relations ExpectedMany stories linger in Los Angels, New Jersey and New York that many "distinguished personages" from Chinese mainland purchased luxury elegant houses and squander money like water in the US. But who on earth knows among these people how many are corrupt officials or their spouses and offspring, or even criminals wanted by the Chinese government?For a long time, the United States has harbored these people since it's none of the business of the US government. But the prime days may have gone forever, the FBI has recently rounded up an important criminal wanted by the Public Security Ministry of the RPC. As Wall Street Journal disclosed, the FBI arrested an economic criminal escaped from the Chinese mainland last April at the Kennedy International Airport of New York, the first time of cooperation between FBI and China. Qin Hong, a suspect who defrauded an investment amounting to several hundred million US dollars, escaped out of China from Shanghai in 1993 and the Chinese government had requested help from the US side to arrest Qin. US officials claimed that the US would want to establish sound coordinated relations of legal implementation by lending its help in the arrest of wanted criminals by China and also hopes the China side would provide substantial help to its big cases. However, the cooperative relations of legal implementation is a fairly sensitive issue between the two countries, especially under the circumstances that some people with ulterior motives spread rumors to slander China's human rights situation, which has incurred a lot of headaches harming normal legal coordination. Thorny issues needed to be solved include whether the US courts would issue arrest warrant, different standards on the definition of important proofs and no agreement signed on criminal extradition. But the FBI believes that a good relationship with China will help them crack down gang crimes committed by Asians in the US, illegal immigration and other trans-board criminals. In addition, the bureau also hopes the Chinese government would allow them to send a resident staff in Beijing. So far, its two detectives in charge of affairs on the Chinese mainland are quartered in Hong Kong. By PD Online staff member Li Heng |
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