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A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media.
Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal activities, with many receiving lengthy jail sentences.
The Ming family worked for one of the four clans that ran Myanmar's sleepy backwater town of Laukkai, close to the border with China, close to the border with China, into a hub for gambling, drugs and scam centres.
Myanmar eventually cracked down, arresting many members of these families in 2023 and handing them over to Chinese authorities.
A total of 39 Ming family members were sentenced on Monday in the eastern city of Wenzhou, according to a report by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Besides the 11 members who received death sentences, another five received death sentences with two-year suspensions; 11 were jailed for life; and the rest were given jail sentences ranging from five to 24 years.
The court found that since 2015 the Ming family and other criminal groups had engaged in criminal activities including telecommunications fraud, illegal casinos, drug trafficking, and prostitution.
Their gambling and scam activities had generated more than 10bn yuan ($1.4bn; £1bn), according to the court.
The Ming family were once one of the most powerful in Myanmar's Shan State, and ran scam centres in Laukkai which held at least ten thousand workers. The most notorious was a compound known as Crouching Tiger Villa, where workers were routinely beaten and tortured.
Then, two years ago, an alliance of insurgent groups launched an offensive which drove the Myanmar military out of large areas of Shan State, and took control of Laukkai. China, which holds significant influence over these groups, was assumed to have given the offensive a green light.
Ming Xuechang, the family patriarch, reportedly killed himself; other family members were handed over to the Chinese authorities. Some have made remorseful confessions.
Thousands of those working in the scam centres have also been handed over to the Chinese police.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/china-sentences-11-members-mafia-112132228.html
A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media.
Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal activities, with many receiving lengthy jail sentences.
The Ming family worked for one of the four clans that ran Myanmar's sleepy backwater town of Laukkai, close to the border with China, close to the border with China, into a hub for gambling, drugs and scam centres.
Myanmar eventually cracked down, arresting many members of these families in 2023 and handing them over to Chinese authorities.
A total of 39 Ming family members were sentenced on Monday in the eastern city of Wenzhou, according to a report by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Besides the 11 members who received death sentences, another five received death sentences with two-year suspensions; 11 were jailed for life; and the rest were given jail sentences ranging from five to 24 years.
The court found that since 2015 the Ming family and other criminal groups had engaged in criminal activities including telecommunications fraud, illegal casinos, drug trafficking, and prostitution.
Their gambling and scam activities had generated more than 10bn yuan ($1.4bn; £1bn), according to the court.
The Ming family were once one of the most powerful in Myanmar's Shan State, and ran scam centres in Laukkai which held at least ten thousand workers. The most notorious was a compound known as Crouching Tiger Villa, where workers were routinely beaten and tortured.
Then, two years ago, an alliance of insurgent groups launched an offensive which drove the Myanmar military out of large areas of Shan State, and took control of Laukkai. China, which holds significant influence over these groups, was assumed to have given the offensive a green light.
Ming Xuechang, the family patriarch, reportedly killed himself; other family members were handed over to the Chinese authorities. Some have made remorseful confessions.
Thousands of those working in the scam centres have also been handed over to the Chinese police.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/china-sentences-11-members-mafia-112132228.html
