11 members of family crime syndicate are sentenced to death in China for running online scams worth £1billion
leven members of a notorious organised crime family have been sentenced to death in China for running international online scams worth £1billion.
The Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang - all members of a powerful family in Kokkang, Myanmar - to death along with eight others, according to a court statement.
On Monday, the court also handed death sentences suspended for two years to five others, while a further 12 defendants received jail sentences of between five and 24 years. Two-year suspended death sentences are often converted to life in prison.
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