(Yicai Global) July 4 -- Chinese police brought a fugitive charged with fraud back to China from France.

The suspect, surnamed Zhao, was the second such absconder repatriated to face the music after South Korea returned five others in the same ring in the first instance of more than one country doing so, according to the website of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security.

This is the third time Chinese police have succeeded in securing extradition of a suspect from the northern European nation in the ministry's 'Fox Hunt' campaign, which kicked off in 2014, to return fraudsters on the lam overseas to answer for their misdeeds.

Zhao, his accomplice Ji and other four others used companies they controlled to illegally raise funds from unspecified investors using random pseudonyms , luring them with promises of high interest, monthly income and principal repayment. Police in Luoyang in eastern Henan province booked the case for investigation in 2015.

South Korea extradited Ji and the other four co-suspects to China, but Zhao slipped through the dragnet in May last year and legged it for France, which approved his removal and return last month.

China has extradition treaties with Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, France, Laos, Mongolia, Lithuania, Peru, Russia, The Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Romania, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, The United Arab Emirates, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Others that have no treaties, such as Singapore and Canada, have also sent back high-profile Chinese flimflammers in recent years.

Editor: Ben Armour