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China prosecutes 39 members of major telecom fraud gangs in northern Myanmar
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12/31/2024
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.
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China has pressed charges against some 39 individuals linked to notorious syndicates
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in northern Myanmar for telecommunications fraud, homicide, drug trafficking and other
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crimes.
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Prosecutors in Wenzhou City are spearheading the cases which involved cross-border crimes
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targeting Chinese citizens.
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There are a lot of members of the criminal group that are related to the Ming family.
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There are thousands of them.
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The main members of the criminal group, including the main culprits responsible for the death
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of Chinese citizens, 39 of whom are under the supervision of the Wenzhou People's Procuratorate.
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The other thousands of criminals are under the jurisdiction of the Wenzhou City District
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Court and the National Procuratorate.
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There are 16 Myanmar citizens in this case.
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But they committed serious crimes such as intentional killing in Myanmar.
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Because the target of the crime is Chinese citizens.
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According to Article 8 of the Criminal Law of China, the protection of jurisdiction,
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China has the right to exercise jurisdiction.
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In addition, they used telecommunication networks abroad to carry out fraud against Chinese
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citizens, set up online gambling houses to bribe Chinese citizens, and organized Chinese
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women to go out to sell silver.
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The prosecutors said the accused are linked to the family-run Ming syndicate founded by
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the late Mai-Shout Hakyan, who was a former member of Myanmar's Shan State Parliament.
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They said they are seeking death penalty for the accused whose actions were brutal and
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had endangered public safety.
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They said they had examined over 1,100 volumes of files, nearly 15,000 evidences, and more
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than 50 terabytes of data to build a case against the suspects.
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