All 28 suspects in three high-profile telecoms fraud cases that resulted in three student deaths have been apprehended, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced on Friday.
Law enforcers were sent to at least seven provinces in southern and eastern China to search for the suspects and have detained all of them.
Xu Yuyu, an 18-year-old high school graduate in Linyi City, Shandong Province, was reported to have lost 9,900 yuan, meant for university tuition fees, to telecoms fraudsters and died of cardiac arrest on August 19.
Just a few miles away in Shandong, would-be sophomore Song Zhenning, was reported to have died in the same way in August, having lost money in another act of fraud.
In the third case, a college student committed suicide after her money was taken by scammers in Jieyang, Guangdong Province.
The cases caused considerable public anger and the MPS issued a top-level order for the arrest when the cases made the news. The MPS also vowed to crack down on telecoms fraud.
