Chinese sentences 11 members of the Ming Mafia family to death

A Chinese court has sentenced 11 members of the notorious family to death to death, which runs a fraud centers in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media.

Dozens of Ming family members were found guilty of committing criminal activities, many of which received prison prison.

The Ming family worked for one of the four clans that operated Myanmar’s sleepy back town in Laukkai, near the border with China, and turned it into a gambling center, drugs and fraud.

Myanmar eventually fell apart, arrested many members of these families in 2023 and handed them over to Chinese authorities.

A total of 39 Ming family members were sentenced on Monday in the eastern city of Venjou, according to a report by Chinese state operator CCTV.

In addition to the 11 members who have received deaths, others have received death sentences with two-year suspension; 11 were closed for life; And the rest received prison sentences ranging from five to 24 years.

The court found that since 2015, the Ming family and other criminal groups have participated in criminal activities, including telecommunications fraud, illegal casinos, drug trafficking and prostitution.

Their gambling and fraud activities have generated more than $ 10 billion ($ 1.4 billion; £ 1 billion), according to court.

Others have previously considered that the casinos of each of the four families are processing several billion dollars each year.

The court also found that the Ming family and other criminal groups were responsible for the deaths of several workers at the center of fraud, including shooting workers in one incident, so that they would not return to China.

Originally developed to take advantage of Chinese gambling demand that is illegal in China and many other neighboring countries, Laukkaing’s casinos have become a profitable money laundering front, traffic and dozens of fraud centers.

It is seen as the engine of what the UN called “Scamdmic”, in which they have seen more than 100,000 foreign citizens, many of whom Chinese, being lured to fraud centers, where they are effectively closed and forced to work long hours, managed advanced online fraud operations targeting casualties.

The Ming family was once one of the most powerful in the state of Shan of Myanmar and operating a scam centers in Laukkai, who kept at least 10,000 workers. The most famous was a compound known as the Tiger Crooped Villa, where workers were routinely beaten and tortured.

Then, two years ago, an union of rebels began an offensive, which led the Myanmar military from large areas of the state of Shan and took control of Laukkai. China, which has a significant impact on these groups, is supposed to have given the offensive green light.

Ming Suchang, the family patriarch, it is reported that he committed suicide; Other family members were handed over to Chinese authorities. Some have made remorse.

Thousands of employees at the fraud centers have also been handed over to Chinese police.

With these sentences, China signals its determination to cope with the fraud business at its border. Beijing’s pressure also forced Thailand to take action against fraud centers along his border with Myanmar earlier this year.

However, the business is adapted by working in Cambodia, although it is still distributed in Myanmar.