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China says family cut off funds to get most wanted graft suspect back

BEIJING: Family members cut off funds and were lobbied by senior members of the Chinese community in the United States as part of efforts to get China's most-wanted graft suspect to give herself up, the ruling Communist Party's corruption watchdog said on Thursday.

Yang Xiuzhu, a former deputy director of Wenzhou's construction bureau in the booming eastern province of Zhejiang, surrendered to Chinese authorities after spending 13 years in hiding overseas, returning to China on Wednesday, a major victory for the country's overseas hunt for fugitive officials.

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