China has executed 11 members of a mafia family for killing 14 people and running a crime syndicate worth more than $1bn, authorities said.
In September, the Ming family members, including Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming and Luao Jianzhang, were sentenced to death for a host of crimes.
They had been found guilty of killing 14 Chinese citizens, as well as illegal detention and fraud.
The Wenzhou city Intermediate People’s Court announced the execution in a statement on Thursday morning.
Members of the group were detained in 2013 after Chinese authorities pressured authorities in the border areas shared with Myanmar to crack down on scams.
After being sentenced to death in September the group filed an appeal, which was rejected.
Myanmar’s military claimed the family’s patriarch, Ming Xuechang, took his own life in 2023 to avoid being captured.
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Scam parks have grown to an industrial-scale business in Southeast Asia, especially in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.
Authorities in the region face growing international pressure from China, the US and other nations to address the proliferation of criminal activity.
In recent years, China executed more people than any other country – sometimes more than every other country in the world combined.
