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China executed eleven members of a cyber scam mafia operating from Burma known as the “Ming family criminal group” and who had been sentenced last September to capital punishment by a court in the eastern city of Wenzhou. Among the executed prisoners are “key members” of these networks, according to the official agency. Xinhua.
During the same trial, the court also handed down five capital sentences suspended for two years, eleven life sentences and twelve sentences of between five and twenty-four years for crimes covering fraud, intentional homicide and intentional injuriesamong a total of fourteen criminal charges.
The court considered it proven that, since 2015, a group organized around members of what is known as the ‘Ming family’ used their influence in the Kokang region (Burma) and the control of armed forces related parties to establish several operational centers in places like Laukkai.
According to the ruling, these spaces served to recruit and provide armed cover to “investors” or “sponsors”, whose groups carried out telecommunications and internet fraud activitiesopening of casinos, drug trafficking and organization of prostitution networks.
The court noted that the capital involved in the gambling and fraud activities exceeded 10 billion yuan (1,404 million dollars, 1.2 billion euros).
Likewise, it was proven that, in connivance with another fraud group, people related to the scams who tried to flee or resisted orders were murdered or injured, with a balance of ten dead and two injured.
Burma, epicenter of crime
Cyber scam centers proliferated in Burma in areas bordering China following the coup d’état of February 2021, which created great instability in the country and favored the actions of all types of organized crime gangs.
According to a United Nations report, at least 120,000 people are held in centers in Burma where they are forced to carry out internet scams, while in Cambodia, the other epicenter of these crimes, it is estimated that there are around 100,000 people.
These are closed complexes, similar to prisons, where these people, deceived with false job offers, are forced to commit online scams from a computer, suffering “extreme violence”, international authorities have explained.
In recent years, China has put pressure on the Burmese Military Junta and has carried out several operations with it to dismantle some of these human trafficking networks, after which there have been hundreds of extraditions of defendants to the Asian giant.