China court sentences 11 people to death over alleged role in family-run Myanmar scam operations

Another five people given suspended death sentences over alleged role in gang that operated scam centres and illegal gambling worth $1.4bn

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their alleged roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth more than $1.4bn, and for the deaths of workers who disobeyed them.

The Wenzhou intermediate people's court on Monday sentenced 11 members of the powerful Ming family in Kokang, Myanmar to death while another five were handed death sentences suspended for two years.