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Big player taken out
China has escalated its fierce crackdown on cross-border organized crime, sentencing five key figures from the powerful Bai family of Myanmar to death.
The ruling, announced by the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court of Guangdong Province on Monday, targets a crime syndicate responsible for running industrial-scale scam centers and illegal gambling that generated over ¥29bn ($4.1bn) in illicit revenue.
immediate death sentences
Among those receiving immediate death sentences were syndicate boss Bai Suocheng and his son, Bai Yingcang, both ex-leaders of the Kokang Border Guard Force militia in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone (SAZ) of Myanmar, near the Chinese border. Along with the five others sentenced to death, authorities hit other associates of the syndicate with prison terms ranging from three to 20 years.
The court found the Bai family guilty of a raft of serious offenses from murder and kidnapping to torture and extortion, highlighting the brutal nature of their scam empire.
Family to be feared
The Bai mafia ran 41 industrial parks in the Kokang SAZ as massive scam factories. The crimes taking place inside these hellish centers included financial and telecommunications fraud, operating illegal casinos, “intentional homicide, kidnapping, and human trafficking.”
The Shenzhen court alleged the crime family’s operations led to the deaths of at least six Chinese nationals and involved extreme violence, while other workers suffered trafficking, illegal detention, and corporal punishment. According to reports, one worker claimed he had fingernails removed with pliers before two fingers were chopped off.
That the Bai family could get away with their criminal empire since the early 2000s dovetails with the political situation in Myanmar, where a complex mix of rebels fighting to overthrow the government, and ethnic military groups loyal to Acting President Min Aung Hlaing means professional soldiers with guns are always readily available.
most powerful in both the political and military circles”
The kingpin’s son essentially acknowledged his family enjoyed protection from the local militia, stating: “Our Bai family was the most powerful in both the political and military circles.” The Bai family allegedly leveraged its ties within Myanmar to safeguard its criminal enterprise so its multi-billion-dollar operation could flourish.
The sun, however, started to set on the Bai empire and the rest of Myanmar’s “Four Families” in 2025, when Chinese and Thai political pressure led to the Myanmar forces loyal to Aung Hlaing freeing 250 victims from scam centers.
Bye-bye Bai, Ming
Monday’s death sentences mark the second major crackdown in two months against the “Four Families” of Kokang, and carry with them the same hallmarks of severe punishment intended to warn all parties how seriously China takes scam center crimes.
In September, the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced 11 members of the rival Ming family to death over their alleged role in a $1.4bn illegal gambling scam operation in the same SAZ.
According to the BBC, the court found multiple Mings guilty of murder, fraud, assault, telecom fraud, and using “armed force” as a means of control, which allegedly led to at least 14 deaths, including workers who tried to escape.
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