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One China's judicial body has sentenced several leading individuals of a notorious Burmese organized crime group to death as Beijing maintains its efforts on scam activities in Southeast Asian region.

In all, 21 Bai family individuals and collaborators were sentenced of scams, homicide, assault and various crimes, reported a state media document posted on the court portal.

The family is one of a few of organized crime groups that gained influence in the 2000s and converted the poor backwater town of the town into a wealthy center of gambling establishments and red-light districts.

In recent years they shifted to fraudulent schemes in which thousands of illegally moved individuals, a large number of them from China, are trapped, mistreated and compelled to cheat victims in illegal enterprises valued at huge sums.

Specifics of the Sentencing

Syndicate head the patriarch and his offspring the younger Bai were among the group of figures given to capital punishment by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang and A fourth person were the additional convicted.

Two individuals of the Bai family syndicate were given delayed executions. Five were condemned to permanent incarceration, while additional individuals were handed jail terms between three to 20 years.

This family, who commanded their own militia, established forty-one facilities to house their online fraud schemes and gambling houses, authorities said.

Extent of Illegal Operations

These unlawful operations included more than 29bn Chinese yuan (over four billion dollars; £3.1bn). These activities also resulted in the fatalities of six Chinese individuals, the self-inflicted death of one and several assaults, reports stated.

The severe sentences issued by the court are within the Chinese initiative to eradicate the vast fraud networks in South East Asia - and issue a stern message to additional criminal syndicates.

History of the Clans

These families gained influence in the early 2000s with the assistance of Min Aung Hlaing - who now leads the country's junta. The leader had intended to support associates in Laukkaing after removing its former warlord.

Among the groups, the this family were "the most powerful", Bai Yingcang previously stated to official sources.

During that period, our Bai family was the leading in each of the government and military circles," the individual remarked in a report about the clan, aired on official channels in the summer.

During the documentary, a worker at one of fraud facilities described the abuse he had suffered at the location: besides being beaten, he had his fingernails extracted with pliers and a couple of his digits amputated with a tool.

More Charges

Bai Yingcang is included in those who were given to execution recently. The individual has also been independently convicted of organizing to smuggle and make eleven tons of narcotics, state media reported.

Downfall of the Groups

The families' fall occurred in recent times as political winds altered.

Previously Beijing has urged the Myanmar junta to control scam schemes in the area.

Last year, the law enforcement issued detention orders for the leading individuals of these clans.

Bai Suocheng, the clan's head, was among the individuals who were handed to Beijing from Myanmar in the beginning of the year.

"Why is the Chinese government putting such extensive work to go after the clans?" a expert stated in the summer report.

"It's to warn groups, no matter who you are, your base, if you commit these terrible offenses targeting the Chinese people, you will pay the price."