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A Chinese judicial body has condemned several leading figures of a well-known Burmese organized crime group to capital punishment as Beijing maintains its crackdown on fraudulent operations in Southeast Asian region.

Altogether, twenty-one clan figures and partners were found guilty of scams, murder, assault and additional offenses, said a official report published on the judicial website.

The group is among a few of mafias that became dominant in the early 2000s and changed the impoverished isolated region of the town into a wealthy center of casinos and nightlife areas.

Recently they turned to fraudulent schemes in which many of smuggled workers, many of them Chinese, are ensnared, harmed and obligated to defraud others in criminal operations worth billions.

Information of the Sentencing

Mafia boss Bai Suocheng and his heir Bai Yingcang were included in the five men given to death by the court in Shenzhen. Yang Liqiang, A third figure and A fourth person were the other three punished.

Two members of the Bai family mafia were handed conditional death penalties. Five were condemned to permanent incarceration, while nine others were received jail sentences ranging from a period of 3-20 years.

The Bais, who controlled their own private army, set up forty-one facilities to house their online fraud activities and casinos, officials stated.

Magnitude of Criminal Schemes

These criminal enterprises involved more than twenty-nine billion Chinese yuan (over four billion dollars; £3.1bn). They also caused the fatalities of several from China citizens, the suicide of one and numerous injuries, official sources stated.

The strict sentences handed down by the judicial body are a component of China's initiative to eradicate the vast scam networks in the region - and issue a firm message to additional criminal syndicates.

Background of the Groups

These groups rose to power in the recent decades with the help of a prominent figure - who currently heads Myanmar's military government. The leader had wanted to bolster associates in the town after replacing its previous leader.

Within the groups, the Bais were "the top", Bai Yingcang before informed official sources.

Back then, the clan was the dominant in both the political and armed spheres," the individual remarked in a report about the clan, aired on official channels in July.

Within that documentary, a employee at a fraud facilities recalled the abuse he had experienced at the location: in addition to being assaulted, he had his nails removed with instruments and a couple of his digits severed with a tool.

More Charges

Bai Yingcang is included in those who were sentenced to execution recently. The individual has also been independently sentenced of conspiring to trade and produce 11 tonnes of illegal drugs, official sources reported.

Downfall of the Families

The families' downfall happened in recent times as political winds shifted.

Previously Chinese authorities has urged the Myanmar junta to control scam operations in Laukkaing.

Last year, the authorities issued arrest warrants for the leading figures of these clans.

Bai Suocheng, the clan's head, was among the figures who were extradited to Beijing from the country in recent months.

"Why is the authorities putting so much effort to go after the clans?" a expert said in the summer documentary.

This serves as a warning other people, regardless of your position, your location, when you carry out these heinous crimes targeting the citizens, you will pay the price."