Overview
- State media said a court in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, carried out the executions on January 29 after the Supreme People's Court upheld the verdicts in November.
- The defendants were found guilty of murder, intentional injury, illegal detention, fraud and running illegal gambling establishments.
- Chinese authorities attribute more than 10 billion yuan in proceeds to the network between 2015 and 2023 and link it to the deaths of 14 Chinese citizens.
- Members of the family were detained in 2023 when ethnic militias seized Laukkaing and were later handed over to China.
- Reports describe large Myanmar compounds forcing people into online scams, with the conflict there enabling such operations to flourish.