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A Chinese judicial body has condemned several leading members of a well-known Burmese organized crime group to execution as Beijing persists in its campaign on fraudulent networks in Southeast Asian region.

Altogether, twenty-one clan members and associates were convicted of scams, homicide, assault and additional offenses, stated a official document published on the judicial portal.

The family is one of a handful of organized crime groups that rose to power in the last two decades and changed the underdeveloped remote area of the town into a lucrative center of gambling establishments and nightlife areas.

In recent years they shifted to scams in which thousands of smuggled individuals, several of them Chinese, are caught, harmed and obligated to cheat others in unlawful enterprises valued at huge sums.

Information of the Sentencing

Syndicate boss the patriarch and his heir Bai Yingcang were among the five men condemned to death by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. Another individual, Hu Xiaojiang and Chen Guangyi were the other three convicted.

Two individuals of the Bai family mafia were given suspended death sentences. Several were sentenced to permanent incarceration, while nine others were received jail sentences ranging from several years to two decades.

This family, who commanded their own private army, set up forty-one compounds to accommodate their online fraud activities and gambling houses, government said.

Magnitude of Illegal Schemes

These illegal activities involved more than 29 billion yuan ($4.1bn; over three billion pounds). These activities also caused the demise of six Chinese individuals, the self-inflicted death of an individual and numerous injuries, state media reported.

The severe sentences issued by the judicial body are a component of the Chinese effort to remove the vast fraud operations in the region - and send a strong signal to other illegal syndicates.

History of the Families

These families rose to power in the 2000s with the help of Min Aung Hlaing - who now leads Myanmar's junta. The leader had aimed to prop up allies in Laukkaing after ousting its earlier ruler.

Among the groups, the this family were "the top", the son before stated to official sources.

During that period, the clan was the leading in each of the political and military spheres," the individual remarked in a documentary about the Bai family, aired on Chinese state media in July.

In the same report, a individual at their illegal operations described the mistreatment he had experienced at the location: besides being assaulted, he had his nails removed with pliers and two of his fingers severed with a tool.

Additional Allegations

Bai Yingcang is included in those who were given to execution recently. The individual has additionally been separately sentenced of conspiring to trade and manufacture eleven tons of methamphetamine, official sources stated.

Decline of the Groups

Their fall came in last year as political winds shifted.

Over a long period Chinese authorities has pressed the local government to control fraudulent schemes in the area.

Last year, the authorities released legal actions for the key individuals of such groups.

The patriarch, the clan's patriarch, was included in the warlords who were transferred to China from Myanmar in recent months.

For what reason is the state making such extensive work to go after the clans?" a Chinese investigator said in the July report.

The purpose is to caution individuals, regardless of your position, where you are, as long as you carry out such heinous offenses targeting the nationals, you will pay the price."