At noon on February 1, 2016, Fu Yaobo, who was far away in the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (St. Ger), suddenly heard a rapid knock at the door.
When I opened the door, I saw four police officers standing outside, two of whom were local black police officers and two of whom were black-haired and yellow-skinned Chinese police officers.
Two Chinese policemen stepped forward and said, "You see what's going on!" ”
At this moment, because of the suspected corruption, Fu Yaobo, who had been in exile for 16 months, did not have the slightest panic and worry, but his heart was unprecedented calm and relief.
More than a year of fugitive life has brought him too much pain, both material and spiritual.
So, how did Fu Yaoming go from being a section chief of the social security supervision team to the road of corruption step by step?
During the time when they ran with their lovers, what kind of tribulations did they encounter?
Embark on the road of no return because of love
Fu Yaobo is a civil servant in the labor and social security picket detachment in Benxi City, Liaoning Province.
In these years in the unit, Fu Yaobo has been conscientious, hard-working, and his performance is also very prominent, and he was soon promoted to the head of the trial section.
At a young age, Fu Yaobo became a state cadre, which made the family feel very proud, but he did not expect that one day he would fall into the abyss in this position.
Just when Fu Yaobo's work was booming, a woman named Zhang Qingcao came into his life.
Zhang Qingcao is 6 years younger than Fu Yaobo and is also a native of Benxi City.
When he was studying at the Liaoning Provincial Finance College, Zhang Qingcao was a well-known school flower in the school, and there was no lack of boys' pursuits around him.
Zhang Qingcao, who grew up like a star holding the moon, developed a wayward and domineering personality.
After graduation, Zhang Qingcao soon entered the palace of marriage with a local college classmate with a good family.
At work, she was also admitted to the labor and social picket detachment and became the cashier of the unit.
In early September 1998, Fu Yaobo was working in his office.
The detachment leader led Zhang Qingcao in and said to Yaobo, "Xiao Fu, we have a new colleague, who is our cashier. "After saying that, I left.
Fu Yaobo looked at the beautiful-looking, smiling little girl in front of him, and was a little stunned for a while.
Zhang Qingcao took the initiative to extend his hand: "Hello, my name is Zhang Qingcao, please pay more attention to it in the future." ”
Fu Yaobo eased up and introduced himself while holding out his hand.
After Zhang Qingcao left the office, Fu Yaobo was a little restless, and from time to time in his mind, the image of the long-haired shawl and gentle and moving would appear, which caused Fu Yaobo to feel a burst of emotion.
Since then, Fu Yaobo likes to run to Zhang Qingcao's office when he has nothing to do, and the two of them quickly become acquainted with each other.
There is indeed a relationship between the two people, and there is always an endless topic to talk about when chatting in leisure.
Over time, Zhang Qingcao's figure was engraved in Fu Yaobo's heart, completely forgetting his wife at home.
At this time, Zhang Qingcao also gradually became interested in dealing with Yaobo.
After starting a family, Zhang Qingcao's husband was away all year round due to work reasons, and the family chores and child care all fell on Zhang Qingcao alone.
Zhang Qingcao, who has been pampered since childhood, is very dissatisfied with this and has had many quarrels with her husband about this.
Whenever Zhang Qingcao finished arguing and was in a bad mood, he would confide in Fu Yaobo, and the relationship between the two became closer and closer.
From working and eating together in the unit, to watching movies and dating together in private, Fu Yaobo and Zhang Qingcao finally crossed the bottom line and developed a lover relationship.
Nearly 30 million yuan of public funds were embezzled
However, it didn't take long for Fu Yaobo to indulge in happiness that he found a very headache.
Zhang Qingcao is used to spending money and spending a lot of money, and he loves to dress up and compare, and the degree of eating and wearing at home is all high-grade supplies.
Such consumption power is far from what Fu Yaobo can afford, so he began to find ways to expand the side business to make money.
By chance, Fu Yaobo met a classmate of his own.
I learned from my classmates that the other party has made a lot of money speculating in stocks in recent years, and the family's luxury cars and mansions are ready.
These words fell into Fu Yaobo's ear, which made him very moved, so he asked a lot of questions about buying stocks.
After going back, Fu Yaobo made up his mind to speculate in stocks, but he didn't have any savings on hand.
So he set his sights on the public funds of the unit.
Zhang Qingcao, as the only financial personnel of the unit, integrates accounting and cashier, transfers a part of the money from public funds, and then fills it back when he makes money, which is a very easy thing.
Fu Yaobo told Zhang Qingyu about the plan to speculate in stocks and embezzle public funds, and received her strong support.
At this time, the two did not believe that the embezzlement of public funds had violated the law.
"In our subconscious, it's just a way to rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water, and we have never had the idea that we have broken the law."
Recalling the decision, the two said.
However, it was precisely because of this decision that the two men were on the road to breaking the law and committing crimes.
In February 2008, Zhang Qingcao filled out two cash checks and secretly took out the wages of 500,000 migrant workers in the detachment and handed them to Fu Yaobo.
Originally, the two thought that the good life was about to begin, but what they did not expect was that this was the beginning of their nightmare.
Fu Yaobo, who knew nothing about the stock market, quickly lost 500,000 yuan.
Fu Yaobo, who was unfavorable to the teacher, did not give up on this, and he had no way to give up.
500,000 yuan is a huge amount of money for him, he must earn back this money as soon as possible, stock investment is his only way out.
Soon, he let Zhang Qingcao withdraw 1 million yuan from the account.
What can disappoint both sides is that in just over 10 days, 1 million yuan lost most of it.
At this time, Fu Yaobo seemed to be enchanted, extending his hand to the public funds again and again, and the result of returning was disappointment again and again.
The two fell deeper and deeper, but there was no way back, and they could only constantly find ways to tear down the east wall and make up for the west wall.
From 2008 to 2014, Fu Yaobo embezzled a total of 29.96 million yuan of public funds, which he used almost all of his stock investment, and finally lost more than half of it.
In the second half of 2014, Zhang Qingcao liquidated the public funds they had embezzled in the past few years, and when they found that there was no way to fill the hole, the two fell into despair.
Nearly 30 million yuan of money disappeared, which will be discovered by the unit sooner or later, and Fu Yaobo fell into endless panic and anxiety.
At this time, Zhang Qingcao put forward the idea of fleeing abroad.
"Now, we have no way to hide it anymore, and once we are discovered, we will definitely go to jail, but it is better that we take the rest of the money to live abroad and leave."
Cornered, Fu Yaobo could only agree to Zhang Qingcao's suggestion, and the two began to flee.
Desperate to flee abroad
Fu Yaobo found a company that represented immigration on the Internet, and in order to cope with various inspections, the two thought of many ways, and they were afraid all day long.
Zhang Qingcao did not dare to go to the bank in exchange for foreign exchange, so he took the money to buy a large amount of gold and silver treasures in the mall for later life.
At the same time, Fu Yaobo began to calculate the location of escape.
After careful planning, they chose Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
This is a small country in the Caribbean, which has not yet established diplomatic relations with China, and even if they are detected by the Chinese police to their location, it is difficult to directly arrest them.
On September 12, 2014, everything was ready.
Early this morning, Fu Yaobo took Zhang Qingcao to board a taxi bound for Shenyang Airport.
At about 10 a.m., a plane from Shenyang to Singapore took off slowly.
Looking at the high-rise buildings and fields and forests below, they were getting farther and farther away from themselves, and tears gradually blurred the eyes of the two people.
There have been countless moments when they have regretted what they have done, but now there is no way back.
Fu and Zhang set off with a tour group that traveled to Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Grenada, and finally Shengge over a 13-day period.
After arriving in St. Georges, the two were arranged by the guide into a dilapidated hotel.
The hotel room did not even have glass, and in the 35-degree heat, coupled with the water and soil, Fu Yaobo fell ill as soon as he arrived at his destination.
For the next few days, they were left to live off fruit and bread because they were not accustomed to eating local food.
Three days later, they finally waited for the passenger ship to reach their final destination, and they were about to board a remote island in Saint-Ge.
After a six-hour voyage, the passenger ship finally reached the shore.
Fu Yaobo and Zhang Qingcao came to this small island that they regarded as a place of refuge.
That night, the two casually found a hotel to stay in.
In the early morning of the next day, the two woke up one after another in a state of hunger and ate the last two carrots they carried in their bags.
Then Fu and Zhang began to live on the island, but life here was not as comfortable and easy as they thought.
The house they rented for the first time did not have screens, and in the heat of more than 30 degrees they had to open the windows for ventilation, which would cause a large influx of mosquitoes.
In just a few days, dozens of bags were stung on the two people.
At first, they thought they were suffering from some skin disease and panicked.
The two people who did not dare to go to the hospital could only take the bovine yolk detoxification pills brought from China while constantly drinking water, hoping to expel the toxins.
Later, Fu Yaobo was really uncomfortable and took the risk of going to a small clinic.
After a period of difficult communication in sign language and English, he learned from the doctor that these were all mosquito packs.
The two of them put their minds at ease, but the problem of mosquitoes was still not solved, even if they were all lit up around the bedroom, mosquito coils would not work.
In desperation, they can only endure the heat when they sleep at night, wearing long clothes and trousers.
A month later, when the house expired, Fu Yaobo and Zhang Qingcao resolutely abandoned the house and found another place to live.
The rent of the new residence is a little more expensive, but the living equipment is relatively complete.
For more than a year, the two lived here.
Slowly, they adapted to the climate, diet, and schedule, but some things were not smoothed out by time.
Since fleeing, Fu Yaobo and Zhang Qingcao have been in a state of panic.
Although they are thousands of miles away from their homeland, they are still worried that they will be caught by the police one day.
This fear is not unreasonable, and on October 8 of the same year that they left, the embezzlement of public funds by the two was exposed.
"The section chief and cashier of the supervision detachment have run away with the money of the migrant workers!"
The news soon exploded in Benxi City.
In the face of the cries of the vast number of migrant workers and the complaints of relevant enterprise units, the Benxi Municipal Procuratorate began to investigate, deal with, and search and arrest Zhang and the two people in this case.
The procuratorate set up a special case team to conduct a comprehensive inventory of the accounts of the supervision detachment on the one hand and collect evidence of the crimes committed by the two;
On the other hand, it cooperates with the immigration authorities to track down the whereabouts of the two.
Soon after, the task force sent two messages, one good and one bad.
The good news is that the crimes of Fu and Zhang have been implemented, and all the evidence of the crimes should be collected in place;
The bad news is that they have fled abroad, and because the two have been tossed around, the police and the Immigration Administration have no way of knowing where they are now.
In 2014, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued instructions to launch the "Skynet" operation, and issued a red notice for state workers who fled abroad due to crimes and those involved in important corruption cases!
China's National Central Security Bureau published a list of 100 Red Notice personnel in the international community, and Fu Yaobo and Zhang Qingcao were listed No. 39 and No. 41 respectively.
However, because the two people's Shengge has not established diplomatic relations with China, and the local development is backward, there is little contact with the outside world, which has caused great difficulties for the Chinese police to pursue.
For a time, Fu and Zhang became a knot in the hearts of everyone in Benxi City.
A life of torment abroad
However, the two people who were far away from Shengge also lived a very torturous life.
Not only do they have to worry all day about being found by the Chinese police, but they also have to endure the thoughts and guilt of their hometown and their families.
Fu Yaobo's parents were 80 years old when he left, and his health was not very good.
He was worried that the news of his crime would reach his parents and that they would not be able to bear it.
Before leaving, Fu Yaobo wanted to buy two cemeteries for his parents in advance.
He knew that this might be the last thing he could do for the second elder, but the brother who did not know the situation stopped Fu Yaobo and said that it was unlucky.
For his wife, in addition to missing his wife, Fu Yaobo is even more guilty.
Fu Yaobo knew that his wife had the habit of playing chess online at noon, so he registered an account, quietly followed her, and regularly went online every day to watch in the "room" where his wife played chess.
Zhang Qingcao also misses her family very much.
When she left, her daughter had just entered junior high school, and during the days of Shengge, she had asked Fu Yaobo countless times: "You say, if my daughter knows what I do, will she hate me?" ”
In addition, for her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, Zhang Qingcao was also very worried, afraid that she would forget herself.
In addition to mental distress and torment, they also have to endure hardships from life and the environment.
The language barrier, cultural differences, these problems have brought them a lot of trouble.
But the most terrifying thing was that there was something wrong with their bodies, especially Fu Yaobo.
Before going abroad, Fu Yaobo suffered from high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, and gallstones.
At the beginning of 2014, Fu Yaobo's gallstones were still faintly painful, and he put up with it in order not to delay the escape.
After coming to St. George, he often had colic in the colon.
Fu Yaobo did not dare to go to a large hospital for treatment, and the local small clinic did not have the conditions for treatment.
As soon as the stone broke out, he could only cover his abdomen while secretly weeping, regretting what he had done in the past.
Although life in Shengge is desperate, they still subconsciously want to escape the police.
However, under the legal net of the motherland, they did not escape in the end.
The whereabouts of the two were discovered and began with one of Fu Yaobo's major hobbies - playing games.
As early as when Benxi was in office, colleagues in the unit noticed this habit of his.
Later, in the process of tracking him, a colleague revealed: "He will definitely not be able to resist playing games, and he may be able to find out where he is by following his game account." ”
The suggestion was quickly adopted by the prosecutor's office, and the police found the company behind The game that Fu Yaobo liked to play the most.
It is understood that this game has recently appeared a very characteristic player, who specializes in helping others practice in the middle of the night.
Through the query of the IP address of this account, it was found that the location of the account is an island country in Barbados, which is very close to St. George's.
The investigation team contacted a Caribbean telecommunications company and asked them to help them inquire into the details of the account.
It turned out that the actual IP address of this account was located in Shengge, which was the IP address used by Fu Yaobo to play the game.
The investigation team smelled an unusual smell, and they immediately contacted the embassy and requested to negotiate with Shengge, hoping to find out the owner behind the IP address.
On February 1, 2016, led by the Shengge police, two Chinese police officers came all the way to the small house where Fu and Zhang lived.
"Boom boom boom!"
After a knock at the door, Fu Yaobo appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
The Police of Shengge took out a search warrant and said: "You are suspected of living illegally, and now we need you to cooperate with the investigation." ”
Immediately after, the Chinese policeman holding a picture of Fu also walked up: "You should know what is going on." ”
Fu Yaobo knew that he had nowhere to escape.
But the panic and anxiety that had been lingering in his heart for 16 months suddenly disappeared at this moment, and was replaced by an unprecedented ease and steadfastness.
He did not resist, and Zhang Qingcao did the same, and the two quickly packed up their things and embarked on a journey back to China.
After his arrest, Fu Yaobo cried: "I suffer every day in the days of fear, illness, and homesickness, and I often think that such a day is better to go back to China and go to prison." ”
On the way to China, the case-handling personnel paid full attention to Yaobo's body and patiently did ideological work for the two.
In the face of the enlightenment of the case-handling personnel, Fu and Zhang did not hesitate in the slightest, saying that they would fully cooperate with the investigation and accept all punishments after returning.
In the early morning of February 6, 2016, the plane taken by the group slowly landed at Beijing Capital International Airport.
After 16 months, Fu Yaobo and Zhang Qingcao once again returned to China.
On August 29 of the same year, the Benxi Intermediate People's Court tried the embezzlement case of the two, and Fu and Zhang confessed to the crimes they committed.
After the court trial, the two were sentenced to life imprisonment, and the two said they would obey the verdict and would not appeal.
At this point, the red notice personnel were arrested again.
As of June 2021, more than 60 red notice personnel have been arrested since the launch of operation Skynet.
As Fu Yaobo said: "Foreign countries are not a haven for sin, and returning to China is the only right way." ”
In today's international judicial law enforcement cooperation, information system interconnection, media information docking, any form of crime will eventually be hidden.
It is believed that in the near future, the red notice personnel will definitely all be ambushed.