China sentences 5 Myanmar scam kingpins to death therecord.media/china-sen…
A Chinese court sentenced five members of a Myanmar crime syndicate to death for their roles in running industrial-scale scamming compounds near the border with China.
According to Xinhua, the Bai family and its associates built 41 industrial parks where they “engaged in telecommunications and online fraud, operating casinos, intentional homicide, intentional injury, kidnapping, extortion, organizing and forcing prostitution, and organizing illegal border crossings.” They defrauded people of more than 29 billion yuan (more than $4 billion), the court alleged, and their operations resulted in the deaths of at least six Chinese citizens.
