Forty of China’s 100 top overseas corruption suspects have taken refuge in the U.S. and the largest share of the most-wanted list -- 15 percent -- hail from the financial industry.

Details about the fugitives’ cases were released by Chinese authorities Wednesday as part of President Xi Jinping’s “Sky Net” operation to track down and return corrupt officials who’ve fled the country. A dozen suspects on the list are believed to have left China in 2013, the most of any year since 1996. That exodus followed the start of Xi’s nationwide anti- graft campaign.

Repatriating financial fugitives is a key piece of Xi’s crackdown and China has pressed the governments of the U.S. and other perceived safe havens to cooperate on their return. The U.S. was seeking ways to deal with more than 100 fugitives sought by China even though the countries have no extradition agreement, a U.S. official said in December, asking not to be identified.

Canada was the second most popular destination for former officials on China’s list, with 26, which was released by the Ministry of Public Security and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s graft-busting agency. New Zealand was third with as many as 20.

The country has secured “red notices” against the 100 suspects from the global police agency Interpol, requesting their arrest and repatriation.

Banking, Insurance

Nine people on the list came from the banking industry, while the insurance and securities industries contributed another six. The list also included media officials and a history professor.

Fifteen fugitives fled from the southern economic powerhouse of Guangdong province, while the southeastern province Zhejiang came in second, with eight.

Among the better-known cases cited was that of Yang Xiuzhu, a former Zhejiang province property official, who fled to the U.S. in 2003 with estimated assets of 253 million yuan ($41 million), the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Her family bought a five-story Manhattan building as early as 1996 for $5 million, the report said.

Xi’s crackdown on graft started weeks after he became party boss in November 2012. The campaign has snared more than 100,000 cadres, according to CCDI figures released in December.