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Wanted gambler captured on train
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-02-07 10:14 Cai Haowen, who is on a A-level wanted list of the
Ministry of Public Security for gambling away a large sum of public money, was
captured in a train, the Jilin provincial department of public security
announced Sunday.
Cai Haowen.
[Xinhua]
| "Cai is now on the way back to
Jilin," said an official with the department who declined to give his name.
The department was tipped off on the early Saturday morning that Cai appeared
in Beijing and railway police finally captured him on a train from Beijing to
Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province around 9 a.m. on Sunday
morning.
Cai was the former director of the traffic and transportation department of
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin. Police found that Cai defalcated
2.76 million yuan (332,530 US dollars) from his department and borrowed another
750,000 yuan (90,360 US dollars) from companies under his supervision from
January to November in 2004.
In 2004, Cai made 27 trips to a neighboring country and squandered all the
money in a local casino. He fled away on Nov. 19 in 2004, according to the
department.
Cai, who is of Korean ethnic group, was born in Yanji City of Jilin on Jan.
16 in 1962. He was expelled from the Communist Party of China and from his post
by the discipline inspection commission and the procuratorate of
Yanbian.
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