China prosecutes 39 members of major telecom fraud gangs in northern Myanmar

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A total of 39 members of major criminal groups based in northern Myanmar were prosecuted in China on Monday for telecommunications fraud and other serious crimes targeting civilians in China.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/27k7cmsy  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00China has pressed charges against some 39 individuals linked to notorious syndicates

00:07in northern Myanmar for telecommunications fraud, homicide, drug trafficking and other

00:12crimes.

00:14Prosecutors in Wenzhou City are spearheading the cases which involved cross-border crimes

00:19targeting Chinese citizens.

00:21There are a lot of members of the criminal group that are related to the Ming family.

00:26There are thousands of them.

00:29The main members of the criminal group, including the main culprits responsible for the death

00:34of Chinese citizens, 39 of whom are under the supervision of the Wenzhou People's Procuratorate.

00:41The other thousands of criminals are under the jurisdiction of the Wenzhou City District

00:45Court and the National Procuratorate.

00:48There are 16 Myanmar citizens in this case.

00:51But they committed serious crimes such as intentional killing in Myanmar.

00:56Because the target of the crime is Chinese citizens.

00:59According to Article 8 of the Criminal Law of China, the protection of jurisdiction,

01:03China has the right to exercise jurisdiction.

01:05In addition, they used telecommunication networks abroad to carry out fraud against Chinese

01:10citizens, set up online gambling houses to bribe Chinese citizens, and organized Chinese

01:15women to go out to sell silver.

01:17The prosecutors said the accused are linked to the family-run Ming syndicate founded by

01:22the late Mai-Shout Hakyan, who was a former member of Myanmar's Shan State Parliament.

01:28They said they are seeking death penalty for the accused whose actions were brutal and

01:33had endangered public safety.

01:35They said they had examined over 1,100 volumes of files, nearly 15,000 evidences, and more

01:42than 50 terabytes of data to build a case against the suspects.

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