A Chinese court has sentenced five senior members of a notorious Myanmar-based criminal group to death, as Beijing intensifies its campaign against large-scale online scam networks operating across Southeast Asia.
According to a state media report posted on the court’s website, a total of 21 members of the Bai family and their associates were convicted of crimes including fraud, homicide, and intentional injury.
The Bai family rose to power in the 2000s, turning the impoverished border town of Laukkaing into a hub of casinos and entertainment venues. In more recent years, their network shifted toward online scams that trapped and exploited thousands of trafficked workers—many of them Chinese nationals—forcing them to defraud victims in schemes worth billions of yuan.
Mafia leader Bai Suocheng and his son Bai Yingcang were among the five sentenced to death by the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court. The others were identified as Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi. Two more family members received suspended death sentences, while five were handed life imprisonment and nine others were given prison terms of three to twenty years.
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