A Chinese court has handed down death sentences to 11 key members of the notorious Ming family, the leaders behind a sprawling $1.4 billion empire.
The verdict was handed down by the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Zhejiang Province yesterday during the final hearing.
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The Mings family is known for running industrial-scale operations like phishing emails, fake investment pitches, extortion rackets, underground casinos, heroin labs, and forced prostitution rings.
Their empire was built on a high level of telecom fraud, drug trafficking, and human exploitation.
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Ming Xuechang, the family’s founder and a dual Chinese-Myanmar national, built the empire from his power base in Myanmar’s Kokang region.
Among those facing the firing squad is Ming Guoping (Xuechang’s son), his cousin Ming Julan, and Ming Zhenzhen, Xuechang’s granddaughter.
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Xuechang himself took his own life in November 2023 after he was arrested and detained by Chinese police in Yunnan.
