The second episode of the documentary "Record of the Destruction of Telecom Fraud in Northern Myanmar", jointly produced by the Ministry of Public Security and China Central Radio and Television, was broadcast on the evening of October 6, focusing on the behind-the-scenes story of China's judicial organs breaking through geographical barriers, breaking through law enforcement barriers, and pursuing criminals across borders.
During the peak period of telecom fraud in northern Myanmar, groups of lost people with dreams of getting rich flocked to northern Myanmar. The false prosperity of "gold everywhere and peace everywhere" in northern Myanmar jointly spun by criminal groups is the biggest "bait".
The "Four Big Families" have built large-scale electronic fraud parks to attract electronic fraud financiers, and then used armed violence to control and carry out physical torture, mental control and economic oppression on the bottom-level personnel of electronic fraud, making electronic fraud a new "wealth code" in the history of their criminal fortunes.
The desperate survival behind the bloody handprints
"I thought I could never go back in this life."
In 2022, Wang Weixing, who went to northern Myanmar to "gold dig" with his friends, was sold all the way from the "Wa State" to Kokang as soon as he smuggled into northern Myanmar. Because he was not proficient in using computers and had no performance in the electronic fraud park, he was beaten repeatedly and locked up in a small dark room. The room was full of garbage, rats and bugs were everywhere, and people were eating, drinking and defecating in the room.
When he was almost desperate, he found an old-fashioned razor in the corner.
Wang Weixing, a telecom scammer returning from northern Myanmar: I cut my wrists and wanted to commit suicide. Then the blood started to surge, covering my whole hand, so I pressed my hands against the wall. The moment I cut my wrists, I thought that I would never be able to go back in this life.
Bloody fingerprints, like living evidence, are the most direct accusation left by Wang Weixing's body.
The violent logic of the northern Myanmar campus
"If you don't commit fraud, it means you have nothing to do."
The Bai family, one of the "four major families" that continues to exert influence in the political, military and police circles, is the "protective umbrella" that many fraudsters want to rely on to gain a foothold in northern Myanmar and make money through electronic fraud.
The head of the Bai family, Bai Suocheng, has served as the interim chief executive of the Kokang Special Administrative Region and the chairman of the first leadership committee of the Kokang Autonomous Region. As early as when he stepped down in 2016, he had already laid out the route and territory to further extend and expand his family's power. He also arranged for his two sons to hold important government positions and fully took control of the police battalion, militia and other armed forces.
At that time, the militia brigade, headed by Bai Suocheng's second son, Bai Yingcang, could mobilize more than 1,500 troops at any time.
Bai Yingcang, the leader of the Bai family criminal group in northern Myanmar: The temptation of fraud is too great, and few people can control it. A random fund can amount to more than one billion or two billion. At that time, a very bad atmosphere formed here, that is, if you don't do fraud, it means you have nothing to do, and you must do fraud.
In September 2019, the Bai family took the lead in establishing the Kokang Entertainment Management Committee, publicly issued "promotion certificates", and openly attracted investment, but in fact collected "protection fees" from electronic fraud parks. In just a few years, the Bai family quickly established and developed 41 electronic fraud parks such as Yum, Cangsheng, Tenglong, and Xinbaili.
As the electronic fraud parks of various major families have sprung up in northern Myanmar, the Liu family has also quickly captured the "business opportunities" and directly focused on the sponsors and executives of the major parks holding huge amounts of fraudulent money.
Qiu Hongwei, Deputy Captain of the Legal Affairs Brigade of the Xinluo Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Longyan City, Fujian Province: The Liu family found that it was too easy for these donors to get money, and they spent a lot of money, so they re-established two new entertainment venues, which really allowed them to make money in northern Myanmar and spend money in northern Myanmar. One by one they wanted to take home.
The successor of a criminal group is sworn in with the financial owner
Randomly select people to "kill people to sacrifice to heaven"
As early as 15 years ago, after the Wei family first appeared on the political stage, they quickly entered politics and the military. The second oldest Wei Chaoren once served as a member of the Parliament of the Union of Myanmar. The third oldest Wei Huairen relied on military power and naturally became one of the core power holders in the Kokang region.
In order to continue the Wei family's control over the Kokang military forces in northern Myanmar, Wei Huairen also spared no effort to train his nephew Chen David. As a second-generation member of the family who was specially trained, Wei Huairen had almost completed the political paving for Chen David before his return.
On the table, they receive government salaries and protect border security; privately, they use state machinery to safeguard family interests. The Wei family has raised this "tiger skin flag" and is not only deeply involved in the operation of the fraud group in northern Myanmar, but also used the interweaving of border defense forces and private armed forces to "create" a model of armed violence control over electronic fraud parks.
In order to show his sincerity in cooperating with the sponsors of various parks under his name, David Chen decided to become brothers with the sponsors, which required a sufficient sense of ritual - "killing people to sacrifice to heaven."
Police from the task force: Why do we need to "kill people and sacrifice to heaven" for sworn worship?
David Chen, the main criminal in the series of cases involving the Wei family criminal group in northern Myanmar: The name of the criminal group is relatively unique.
Police from the task force: How do you identify the target?
David Chen, the main culprit in the Wei Family Criminal Group series in northern Myanmar: Look anywhere, just a stranger.
The "stranger" who was unlucky to be selected was being held in a small dark room because he was dissatisfied with the discipline of the park. Finally, David Chen randomly pushed him to the so-called "sacrifice platform" and fell from one "darkness" to another.
Police from the task force: How did you feel after shooting this man to death during the sworn vows?
David Chen, the main criminal in the Wei Family Criminal Group series in northern Myanmar: Do you need to feel anything? Nothing to feel.
Because he had had disputes with funders of other family parks, David Chen had always been dissatisfied. It was not until the second half of 2022 that a guard captain under David Chen caught the man of the funder on the street and took him back to the security team for detention. A month later, David Chen ordered his men to take the victim who refused to bow his head and show weakness directly to the shooting site.
Huang Yuanfeng, Captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Nan'an Public Security Bureau, Quanzhou, Fujian Province: The deceased had seven bullet holes in his skull. He was face down, kneeling, and his hands were tied behind his back. The tragedy is indescribable. He was simply shot to death randomly.
In the face of innocent lives, the killings are random and the methods are cruel. In northern Myanmar, where power is out of control and the law is disordered, the perpetrators' cold-blooded cruelty and human evil are infinitely amplified and even distorted.
Shooting Chinese escapees with AK47
A scar detail reveals a major transnational case
In November 2023, 121 of the more than 4,000 electronic fraud suspects repatriated from northern Myanmar were handed over to Dalian police for investigation. During the centralized handover and waiting for transfer, the investigators keenly captured a detail. The scars on the suspects' heads were not simple. Different from ordinary stick injuries, the head injury was sunken and had no pores. The forensic department determined that it was burned by high temperature, and initially concluded that it was consistent with the characteristics of injuries caused by gunshots.
The shooting was not ordinary abuse. During the interrogation, the suspect confessed that he and his companions were suppressed by armed forces when they were preparing to flee because they could not bear the long-term abuse and oppression in the electronic fraud park.
Li Moumin, an electronic fraudster from Jinxin Electronic Fraud Park in northern Myanmar: At that time, we all rushed outside. When we rushed to the door, the armed men at the door pointed guns at us.
The bullet grazed his scalp, and Li Moumin escaped life or death. The task force first targeted the "Tenglong Park" and "Jinxin Company" in northern Myanmar where Li Moumin was located at the time as keywords, and searched the information sharing database of 46,000 repatriated personnel from northern Myanmar.
The new clue points directly to an administrator who has not yet been arrested and whose true identity is unknown, codenamed "Li Jin". He has information about the members of the entire fraud gang. After comprehensive analysis and consideration, the task force made a bold decision to directly identify the police officer online through the social media account of "Li Jin" (real name Li Moubo).
In the end, under the strong offensive of the police, Li Moubo took the initiative to hand over the crucial list of 29 people. The task force immediately compared and judged, quickly found out the identities of all the deceased and other important parties, and then went to their registered residences to complete the DNA comparison of the relatives of the deceased. At this point, a major transnational case that was revealed from a scar gradually revealed its dark undertones.
The police found out that the financial owner who gave the order to shoot was named Lin Jian. He rented 30 electronic fraudsters from the "Tenglong Company" of the Bai family in northern Myanmar to his own "Jinxin Company" to conduct investment and financial fraud based on a cooperative sharing model. On August 5, 2023, when more than 20 Chinese electronic fraudsters who could not bear the violent control fled collectively, they were intercepted by Burmese armed personnel in the park and shot at the fleeing crowd.
Wu Mousheng, an electronic fraudster at the Jinxin Electronic Fraud Park in northern Myanmar: We resisted collectively that day and were very confident that we could break out and return to the country, but we didn’t expect that they would shoot directly. I am still impressed by their determination and actions in shooting. The shooting lasted ten seconds.
The criminal group fired AK47s at close range, and some of the fraudsters' bodies were damaged. They did not treat Chinese nationals as human beings, and they killed and buried them whenever they asked.
This shooting resulted in 6 deaths and 8 injuries, which is an unforgivable crime. Due to the restrictions on exit evidence collection, Myanmar required the technical team of the task force to complete all inspections of the murder scene within 8 hours in this electronic fraud park covering more than 1,200 square meters and more than 30 rooms.
Well prepared and technically sound, the core evidence fixed at the scene fully confirmed the direction of the investigation. With the cooperation of relevant law enforcement agencies in Myanmar, from January to July 2024, the six Myanmar armed men who shot and buried the bodies at the scene, as well as Lin Jian, the financier of the electronic fraud park, were arrested one after another. The Chinese police completed a precise encirclement spanning more than 4,000 kilometers from the northeast to the southwest.
Basic criminal evidence weighs 2 tons
The criminal evidence of the Ming family in northern Myanmar was read out for two and a half hours.
On December 30, 2024, the People's Procuratorate of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province filed a lawsuit in accordance with the law against 39 defendants in the main case of the Ming Family Criminal Group in Northern Myanmar. It took the lead in the "Four Major Families" series of cases and made every effort to pursue the criminal acts of telecom fraud in Northern Myanmar in accordance with the law.
1,110 files, nearly 15,000 pieces of documentary and physical evidence, more than 50 TB of electronic data, more than 500 opinions on evidence collection, a 2-ton evidence base, and a complete evidence chain not only build a strict evidence system for accusing the Ming family criminal group, but also provide rules and standards for the national cluster war against cross-border electronic fraud.
On September 29, 2025, in the Grand Court of the Intermediate People's Court of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, 23 defendants in the main case of the Mingjia Criminal Group were brought to court. With 310 pages and 180,000 words, this heavy verdict also revealed their fate of being punished for their crime. The presiding judge read out only the core facts determined by the court for a full two and a half hours.
12 murder cases involving 16 lives, involving a total of 14 charges, the court announced that 11 defendants of the Ming family criminal group headed by Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen were sentenced to death and 5 defendants were sentenced to suspended death.
This is the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China that it has implemented complete judicial jurisdiction over armed transnational criminal groups entrenched overseas. This 227-day court trial is destined to become the prelude and cornerstone of a series of trial cases in northern Myanmar.
