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One China's court has condemned a group of top members of a notorious Burmese mafia to execution as Chinese authorities maintains its efforts on scam networks in Southeast Asian region.

In all, 21 clan members and associates were sentenced of fraud, homicide, injury and various crimes, said a official report published on the judicial website.

The family is one of a small number of organized crime groups that gained influence in the early 2000s and transformed the impoverished remote area of Laukkaing into a profitable hub of casinos and red-light districts.

Recently they turned to illegal operations in which numerous of illegally moved workers, many of them from China, are caught, abused and forced to scam others in illegal enterprises valued at huge sums.

Information of the Verdict

Mafia boss Bai Suocheng and his heir the younger Bai were included in the group of figures given to execution by the court in Shenzhen. Another individual, Hu Xiaojiang and Chen Guangyi were the remaining punished.

A couple of figures of the Bai family mafia were given delayed executions. Five were sentenced to life imprisonment, while additional individuals were given prison terms ranging from several years to two decades.

The Bais, who controlled their own private army, established forty-one facilities to house their cyberscam operations and gambling houses, officials stated.

Scale of Criminal Activities

Such illegal operations entailed more than 29bn yuan (over four billion dollars; over three billion pounds). They also caused the demise of several Chinese individuals, the suicide of one and multiple injuries, state media announced.

The strict sentences issued by the court are within China's effort to eradicate the vast scam rings in South East Asia - and send a firm warning to other criminal groups.

History of the Families

Such groups rose to power in the early 2000s with the assistance of Min Aung Hlaing - who is in charge of the country's military government. The leader had intended to prop up partners in the town after removing its former warlord.

Among the clans, the Bais were "the most powerful", Bai Yingcang earlier informed state media.

"At that time, our Bai family was the leading in each of the government and military circles," he remarked in a film about the clan, broadcast on Chinese state media in July.

During the report, a employee at a illegal operations recalled the harm he had suffered there: besides being beaten, he had his fingernails extracted with tools and two of his digits severed with a blade.

Further Charges

The son is among those who were given to execution recently. The individual has additionally been separately found guilty of conspiring to smuggle and produce 11 tonnes of methamphetamine, reports announced.

End of the Families

Their fall happened in last year as political winds shifted.

Previously Chinese authorities has pressed the Myanmar junta to control fraudulent operations in Laukkaing.

Last year, the Chinese police released detention orders for the leading individuals of such groups.

Bai Suocheng, the Bai family's head, was included in the warlords who were handed to Beijing from the country in recent months.

"Why is the authorities making significant resources to go after the clans?" a expert stated in the July report.

This serves as a warning other people, no matter your position, where you are, when you engage in these heinous crimes affecting the nationals, you will pay the price."