While I disagree with death penalty on principle, I will not spill any tears for slavers.
Besides the 11 members who received death sentences, another five received death sentences with two-year suspensions; 11 were jailed for life; and the rest were given jail sentences ranging from five to 24 years.
The court also found that the Ming family and other criminal groups were responsible for the deaths of several scam centre workers, including shooting workers in one incident to prevent them from returning to China.
It was seen as the engine-room of what the UN has dubbed the “scamdemic”, which has seen more than 100,000 foreign nationals, many of them Chinese, being lured to scam centres where they are effectively imprisoned and forced to work long hours, running sophisticated online fraud operations targeting victims all over the world.
The Ming family were once one of the most powerful in Myanmar’s Shan State, and ran scam centres in Laukkai which held at least 10,000 workers. The most notorious was a compound known as Crouching Tiger Villa, where workers were routinely beaten and tortured.
I’ve heard about these. They lure people in with job offers (I’ve heard from Philippines etc), take their passport, and basically imprison them.
Be careful corrupt Chinese politicians. You may not want a precedence of death penalty when it’s your turn.
Interesting that a country in the midst of a civil war is still able to stamp out this complicated problem within their borders.
I think this one was pretty obvious. They also turned them over to China for trial.
It is the military taking away a financing source for rebels. They mostly are not able to deal with problems like these though. Myanmar has turned into the biggest source of drugs in the world due to the civil war.
Have you even read the bloody article?
The rebels,which are well connected to China, had taken over the town these guys operated in and captured the scammers before extradition to China.
The bloody military has very likely been facilitating these guys for years.
…well, technically the rebels did.
