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China executed Eleven people were convicted of intentional homicide, fraud and other crimes linked to a cross-border scam operation after the country’s highest court approved their death sentences, authorities said Thursday.
The announcement was posted on the website of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s highest state agency responsible for criminal prosecution and supervision.
The executions followed a decision and an execution order from the Supreme People’s Courtwhich upheld lower court judgments against members of the so-called Ming family criminal group.
They were accused of leading large-scale operations telecommunications fraud and gambling operations in northern Myanmar, which were worth more than 10 billion yuan, or about $1.4 billion.
Myanmar police hand over five telecom and internet fraud suspects to Chinese police at the international airport in Yangon, Myanmar, August 26, 2023. (Chinese Embassy in Myanmar/Xinhua via AP)
Authorities said the group colluded with criminal organizations led by “donors” to operate. telecommunications fraud schemesillegal casinos, drug trafficking and prostitution operations.
“The Ming family criminal group also colluded with the online fraud criminal group of Wu Hongming and others to deliberately kill, intentionally injure and illegally detain people involved in the fraud, resulting in the death of 14 Chinese citizens and injury to many others,” the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said.
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or tricked into working in Myanmar wait at a compound at KK Park in Myawaddy, Myanmar, February 26, 2025, following a multinational crackdown on criminal operations. (Stringer/Reuters)
Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming, Wu Senlong and Fu Yubin were among those sentenced to death in September by the Intermediate People’s Court in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Zaw Min Tun C, head of the information team of the Myanmar National Defense and Security Council, speaks during a press conference on eliminating telecom fraud and online gambling in Yangon, Myanmar, December 14, 2025. (Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Some defendants appealedbut on November 25, the Zhejiang Higher People’s Court rejected the appeal, upheld the original verdict, and submitted the case to the Supreme People’s Court for mandatory review.
Authorities said the prisoners were allowed to meet their relatives before the executions took place.
