China has executed 11 criminals from gangs located in northern Myanmar, including key members of telecommunications fraud groups, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday (29).
The 11 were sentenced to death in September and the executions were carried out by a court in Wenzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, Xinhua said, without providing further details about the criminals.
In recent years, China has stepped up collaboration with its Southeast Asian neighbors Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia to crack down on the operations of “scam hubs” in the region.
As a result, thousands of criminal suspects have been repatriated, according to experts in transnational organized crime.
Last year, China’s Ministry of Public Security reported that more than 7,600 Chinese citizens suspected of online gambling and telecommunications fraud had been repatriated from Myawaddy, a city on Myanmar’s southeastern border with Thailand.
Earlier this month, Cambodia extradited to China tycoon Chen Zhi, who, according to the US, presides over a conglomerate that serves as a front for a multimillion-dollar cyber fraud network.
