Overview
- The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court announced the executions of four leading members of the Bai family after Supreme People’s Court approval, with the group’s ringleader, Bai Suocheng, having died of illness following his conviction.
- Court findings said the Bai network ran Kokang-based compounds that defrauded victims of more than 29 billion yuan and caused six deaths, with crimes including homicide, kidnapping, extortion, forced prostitution, and trafficking and manufacturing about 11 tons of methamphetamine.
- The four were sentenced to death in November 2025, their appeals were rejected by the Guangdong Provincial High People’s Court in December, and the top court affirmed the penalties before they were carried out.
- The announcement follows China’s January 29 executions of 11 members of the Ming family syndicate tied to Myanmar scam centers, a case that involved at least 14 deaths and large-scale fraud operations measured by Chinese courts at roughly 10 billion yuan.
- Authorities frame the cases as part of an ongoing regional crackdown that includes cooperation with neighboring governments, mass repatriations of suspects to China, and broader efforts to dismantle industrial-scale scam parks that have trafficked large numbers of workers.