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A Chinese judicial body has handed down death sentences to a group of leading individuals of a notorious Burmese mafia to execution as Chinese authorities continues its crackdown on fraudulent networks in South East Asia.

Overall, 21 Bai family figures and partners were sentenced of fraud, homicide, injury and other crimes, stated a official announcement released on the court portal.

The family is among a small number of mafias that rose to power in the 2000s and transformed the poor isolated region of the town into a profitable center of gambling establishments and red-light districts.

Recently they turned to scams in which thousands of smuggled individuals, a large number of them from China, are trapped, mistreated and forced to cheat victims in unlawful enterprises worth huge sums.

Information of the Sentencing

Mafia head the patriarch and his heir the younger Bai were included in the several figures sentenced to execution by the court in Shenzhen. Another individual, A third figure and Chen Guangyi were the other three convicted.

A couple of figures of the Bai family syndicate were handed suspended death sentences. Five were given to life imprisonment, while additional individuals were given prison terms between several years to two decades.

This family, who commanded their own armed group, established forty-one compounds to accommodate their cyberscam schemes and gambling houses, authorities stated.

Magnitude of Unlawful Activities

These unlawful enterprises included more than twenty-nine billion Chinese yuan ($4.1 billion; £3.1 billion). They also led to the fatalities of six Chinese individuals, the suicide of one and several assaults, state media stated.

The strict punishments delivered by the judicial body are a component of the Chinese initiative to remove the large fraud networks in the region - and deliver a stern signal to further criminal organizations.

Background of the Families

These clans rose to power in the recent decades with the help of a prominent figure - who now leads Myanmar's junta. He had aimed to bolster associates in the town after removing its previous warlord.

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

"At that time, the clan was the most powerful in both the government and armed circles," the individual stated in a report about the clan, broadcast on national media in the summer.

During the documentary, a employee at a illegal operations narrated the abuse he had endured at the location: besides being hit, he had his fingernails removed with tools and a couple of his digits severed with a blade.

Additional Accusations

Bai Yingcang is included in those who were sentenced to execution in the latest ruling. The individual has also been separately found guilty of organizing to smuggle and make a large quantity of illegal drugs, reports stated.

End of the Families

The families' end happened in recent times as political winds altered.

Previously Chinese authorities has pressed the regime to limit scam schemes in Laukkaing.

Last year, the law enforcement released detention orders for the most prominent figures of such clans.

The patriarch, the clan's head, was among the figures who were transferred to Beijing from the country in recent months.

For what reason is the authorities making so much effort to target the four families?" a official said in the July report.

"It's to warn individuals, regardless of who you are, your base, when you commit these terrible crimes affecting the citizens, you will be held accountable."