21.   A FORMER chairman and director of Hong Kong-based Ka Wah Bank has been arrested in Beijing for alleged economic crimes, according to a senior bank executive.

22.   Alferyev was writing about economic crimes in the region and had recently received repeated threats by phone, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.

23.   Alarmed at mounting losses of public funds, China has intensified a drive to crack down on embezzlement, tax evasion, bribery and other economic crimes.

24.   Bucur also said that economic crimes in the financial and banking domain were worrying police.

25.   But these cases represent only a fraction of the economic crimes plaguing the country, Shalenkov said.

26.   But Iraq said economic crimes are intolerable in a country suffering from seven years of U.N. economic sanctions.

27.   Chinese courts sometimes impose the death penalty for major economic crimes.

28.   Civilian investigators from an economic crimes bureau questioned Noles for a day without leveling any clear accusation.

29.   Chen resigned to take responsibility for the case of a deputy mayor who committed suicide rather than face an investigation into economic crimes.

30.   Chinese law allows the death sentences for those convicted of egregious economic crimes.