Anti-graft test for the US
The second deportation hearing of China's most-wanted economic fugitive Yang Xiuzhu took place in the New York City Immigration Court on Monday, without a ruling. Yang's hearings have drawn much attention in both China and the United States as Yang is no longer simply seen as a corrupt official that has fled from justice, but as emblematic of the nations' anti-corruption resolve.
Yang, the former deputy mayor of Wenzhou in East China's Zhejiang province, is accused of accepting 253 million yuan (about $40 million) in bribes. She was the subject of an Interpol red notice after she fled China in 2003.
Last month, Yang's businessman brother Yang Jinjun, another of China's most-wanted economic fugitives, was repatriated to China from the US. He was the first of the 100 suspects on the "red notice" to be repatriated back from the US since China's "Sky Net" operation was launched in April.
