China sentences 11 members of mafia family to death
According to the Chinese state media, a Chinese court punished 11 members of a poor family who run fraudulent centers in Myanmar.
He was found guilty of conducting dozens of members of the Ming family, many of which were sentenced to long imprisonment.
The Ming family worked on one of the four clans that runs Laggun Lukkaing, the sleepy stagnant water town of Myanmar, into a center for gambling, drugs and fraud centers.
Myanmar was finally broken, arrested many members of these families in 2023 and delivered them to Chinese authorities.
According to a report by Chinese state publisher CCTV, a total of 39 Ming Family members were sentenced to Monday at the Eastern city Wenzhou.
In addition to 11 members who were sentenced to death, he was suspended for five more years; 11 Lifetime imprisoned; And the rest was sentenced to five to 24 years.
Since 2015, the Court has found that the Ming family and other penalty groups have carried out criminal activities such as telecommunication fraud, illegal casinos, drug trafficking and prostitution.
According to the court, gambling and deceptive activities produced more than 10 billion yuan ($ 1.4 billion; $ 1 billion).
Others predicted that each of the four families have committed a few billion dollars each year.
The court also found that the Ming family and other criminal groups were responsible for the death of several scam center workers, including shooting workers in an incident to prevent them from returning to China.
Luckaing’s casinos, developed to take advantage of China’s gambling demand in China and many other neighboring countries, turned into a lucrative front for money laundering, human trafficking and dozens of fraud center.
The UN was seen as a motor room, many of which saw more than 100,000 foreign nationals, many of whom were Chinese, and they were effectively imprisoned and forced to work for long hours, and withdrew to the sophisticated online fraud operations aimed at the victims all over the world.
The Ming family was one of the most powerful ones in Myanmar’s Shan province, and in Lukkaing, he operated deception centers that held at least 10,000 workers. It was the most famous compound known as the crouched Tiger Villa, where workers were routinely beaten and tortured.
Later, two years ago, an alliance of rebellious groups launched an attack that took the Myanmar army out of large areas of Shan province and seized the control of Lukkaing. It was assumed that China, which has a significant impact on these groups, gave a green light to the attack.
Family Patriarch Ming Xuechang reportedly killed himself; Other family members were delivered to Chinese officials. Some regrets.
Thousands of people working in SCAM centers were delivered to the Chinese police.
With these sentences, China points to the determination to cope with the deceptive work on the border. The pressure of Beijing forced Thailand to take action against the deception centers on the Myanmar border earlier this year.
Nevertheless, the business has adapted, most of them are now operating in Cambodia, but it is still common in Myanmar.
