Chinese police have captured 288 economic fugitives hiding overseas - including many corrupt officials - since Fox Hunt 2014 was initiated in July, a Ministry of Public Security official said on Monday.

Of those caught, 126 have returned to China and confessed to their crimes, and 81 of them were involved infinancial crimes each valued over 10 million yuan ($1.64 million).

Twenty-one of the suspects arrested had spent more than a decade on the run, the ministry said.