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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Besides the 11 members who received death sentences, another five received death sentences with two-year suspensions; 11 were jailed for life; and the rest were given jail sentences ranging from five to 24 years.

The court also found that the Ming family and other criminal groups were responsible for the deaths of several scam centre workers, including shooting workers in one incident to prevent them from returning to China.

It was seen as the engine-room of what the UN has dubbed the "scamdemic", which has seen more than 100,000 foreign nationals, many of them Chinese, being lured to scam centres where they are effectively imprisoned and forced to work long hours, running sophisticated online fraud operations targeting victims all over the world.

The Ming family were once one of the most powerful in Myanmar's Shan State, and ran scam centres in Laukkai which held at least 10,000 workers. The most notorious was a compound known as Crouching Tiger Villa, where workers were routinely beaten and tortured.

I've heard about these. They lure people in with job offers (I've heard from Philippines etc), take their passport, and basically imprison them.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 hours ago

While I disagree with death penalty on principle, I will not spill any tears for slavers.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Be careful corrupt Chinese politicians. You may not want a precedence of death penalty when it's your turn.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The CCP actually executes corrupt politicians quite often. It's one of the few things I can agree with them on. The issue is, if they can be trusted to grant fair trials. And then you have to ask how much can you trust an authoritarian government on really anything.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If you think a country exist where every trial is fair, you are naive.
I bet trials in USA and China are about equally unfair, and both have death penalty.
It's better in EU, but any trial will always have potential problems of errors or bias or even corruption. But at least EU doesn't have death penalty.
Even political corruption shouldn't have death penalty.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

The oligarchy doesn't like competition.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting that a country in the midst of a civil war is still able to stamp out this complicated problem within their borders.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think this one was pretty obvious. They also turned them over to China for trial.