China executes 11 people convicted in scam crackdown

China executed 11 radical convicted of intentional homicide, fraud and different crimes linked to a cross-border scam operation, aft the country’s apical tribunal approved their decease sentences, authorities said Thursday.

The announcement was published connected the webiste for the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s highest authorities assemblage liable for transgression prosecution and oversight.

The executions followed a ruling and execution bid from the Supreme People’s Court, which upheld little tribunal judgments against members of the alleged Ming household transgression group.

They were accused of moving large-scale telecommunications fraud and gambling operations from bluish Myanmar that progressive much than 10 cardinal yuan, astir $1.4 billion.

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Myanmar constabulary manus implicit 5 telecom and net fraud suspects to Chinese constabulary astatine Yangon International Airport successful Yangon, Myanmar, Aug. 26, 2023. (Chinese Embassy successful Myanmar/Xinhua via AP)

Authorities said the radical colluded with transgression organizations led by "financial backers" to run telecom fraud schemes, amerciable casinos, cause trafficking and prostitution operations.

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"The Ming household transgression radical besides colluded with the online fraud transgression radical of Wu Hongming and others to deliberately kill, intentionally injure, and illegally detain radical progressive successful fraud, resulting successful the decease of 14 Chinese citizens and injuries to galore others," the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said.

Victims of scam centers who were tricked oregon trafficked into moving successful Myanmar hold wrong a compound astatine KK Park successful Myawaddy, Myanmar, connected Feb. 26, 2025, pursuing a multinational crackdown connected transgression operations. (Stringer/Reuters)

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Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming, Wu Senlong, and Fu Yubin were among those sentenced to decease successful September by the Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court of Zhejiang Province.

Zaw Min Tun C, person of the Information Team of Myanmar's National Defense and Security Council, speaks astatine a property league connected the elimination of telecom fraud and online gambling successful Yangon, Myanmar, Dec. 14, 2025. (Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua via Getty Images)

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Some of the defendants appealed, but the Zhejiang Higher People’s Court connected Nov. 25 rejected the appeal, upheld the archetypal verdict and submitted the lawsuit to the Supreme People’s Court for mandatory review.

Authorities said the prisoners were allowed to conscionable with adjacent relatives earlier the executions were carried out.