China has executed 11 people convicted of intentional murder, fraud and other crimes linked to a cross-border scam operation after the country’s top court approved their death sentences, authorities said Thursday.
The announcement was published on the website of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the highest Chinese state body responsible for criminal prosecution and supervision.
The executions followed a ruling and execution order by the Supreme Court, which upheld lower court rulings against members of the so-called Ming family criminal group.
They were accused of running large-scale telecommunications fraud and gambling operations from northern Myanmar involving more than 10 billion yuan (about $1.4 billion).
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Myanmar police hand over five telecom and internet fraud suspects to Chinese police at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, August 26, 2023. (Chinese Embassy in Myanmar/Xinhua via AP)
According to authorities, the group conspired with criminal organizations led by “financial financiers” to run telecom fraud schemes, illegal casinos, drug trafficking and prostitution operations.
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“The Ming family criminal group also conspired with the Wu Hongming online fraud criminal group and others to deliberately kill, deliberately injure and illegally detain people involved in fraud, resulting in the deaths of 14 Chinese citizens and injuries to many others,” the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said.
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar wait in a compound at KK Park in Myawaddy, Myanmar, on February 26, 2025, following a multinational crackdown on criminal operations. (Stringer/Reuters)
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Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming, Wu Senlong and Fu Yubin were among those sentenced to death by the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court of Zhejiang Province in September.
Zaw Min Tun C, leader of the Information Team of Myanmar’s National Defense and Security Council, speaks at a press conference on the eradication of telecom fraud and online gambling in Yangon, Myanmar, December 14, 2025. (Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Some defendants appealed, but the Zhejiang Higher People’s Court rejected the appeal on November 25, affirmed the original verdict and referred the case to the People’s Supreme Court for mandatory review.
Authorities said the prisoners were allowed to meet close relatives before the executions were carried out.
