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One China's court has handed down death sentences to a group of prominent individuals of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Chinese authorities maintains its campaign on scam activities in Southeast Asian region.

In all, twenty-one Bai family individuals and collaborators were sentenced of fraud, murder, assault and various crimes, stated a official report posted on the court website.

The family is one of a handful of organized crime groups that became dominant in the last two decades and converted the underdeveloped isolated region of the town into a wealthy base of gambling establishments and red-light districts.

Over the past few years they pivoted to scams in which numerous of trafficked people, a large number of them from China, are ensnared, abused and compelled to cheat others in illegal activities worth billions of dollars.

Information of the Judgment

Mafia head Bai Suocheng and his offspring the younger Bai were among the group of individuals given to death by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. Yang Liqiang, A third figure and Chen Guangyi were the additional punished.

A couple of individuals of the Bai family mafia were given conditional death penalties. Five were condemned to permanent incarceration, while more figures were handed prison sentences between a period of 3-20 years.

The clan, who commanded their own private army, created 41 bases to host their online fraud operations and casinos, officials said.

Extent of Unlawful Operations

These criminal activities included more than twenty-nine billion yuan (over four billion dollars; £3.1 billion). These activities also led to the demise of six Chinese nationals, the self-inflicted death of an individual and numerous injuries, official sources reported.

The severe sentences delivered by the court are within the Chinese campaign to eliminate the vast scam operations in Southeast Asia - and issue a strong warning to other criminal syndicates.

Context of the Families

These clans gained influence in the recent decades with the support of a prominent figure - who currently heads Myanmar's junta. He had aimed to support partners in Laukkaing after ousting its previous leader.

Within the families, the Bais were "the most powerful", Bai Yingcang previously informed state media.

During that period, the clan was the most powerful in each of the government and military arenas," he said in a film about the clan, aired on official channels in the summer.

Within that documentary, a employee at one of fraud facilities described the harm he had suffered there: besides being hit, he had his nails yanked out with instruments and a couple of his fingers cut off with a tool.

Additional Charges

Bai Yingcang is among those who were given to execution recently. He has additionally been separately found guilty of conspiring to traffic and make eleven tons of methamphetamine, official sources reported.

Downfall of the Families

Their fall came in recent times as circumstances changed.

Previously Beijing has urged the regime to limit fraudulent operations in Laukkaing.

Recently, the law enforcement released detention orders for the key individuals of such groups.

Bai Suocheng, the clan's leader, was among the warlords who were extradited to China from Myanmar in recent months.

For what reason is the Chinese government making such extensive work to target the four families?" a expert commented in the July report.

"It's to warn groups, regardless of your position, your base, if you carry out these heinous acts affecting the citizens, you will be held accountable."