Overview
- The Wenzhou court carried out the Jan 29 executions of members of the Ming family network and associates convicted of intentional homicide, unlawful detention, fraud and operating casinos.
- The Supreme People’s Court upheld the death sentences for crimes dating to 2015, citing over 10 billion yuan in illicit proceeds and links to the deaths of 14 Chinese citizens.
- Key defendants were detained in 2023 in Laukkaing by ethnic militias and handed to China, while family patriarch Ming Xuechang later died by suicide in custody, according to state media reports.
- The September 2025 verdicts also issued death sentences with reprieve, life terms and multi‑year prison sentences to additional defendants, with relatives permitted final meetings before the executions.
- Chinese authorities emphasize cross‑border cooperation that has repatriated thousands of suspects, including more than 7,600 from Myawaddy in 2025, alongside extraditions such as Cambodian‑based tycoon Chen Zhi.