China does not fight yes? Are you sure? They just wacked four crime syndicates and cleaned up in Myanmar

China’s MPS deals devastating blows to four major criminal clans in northern Myanmar

(They did not call ICE. They did not bloviate.  They are not looking for other countries to send their criminals to.  They did not hesitate.  They did not shoot at their neighbor.   They did not shoot little boats in the oceans to smithereens.  Their Public Security planned perfectly and WACK-A-MYANMAR-MOLE.  Myanmar breathes a sigh of relief.  They are not bypassing legal procedures.  They are not torturing and putting people in alligator Alcatraz.  Even in civilizational societies, crime needs to be dealt with.  This is how civilizationals do it.  Will Afghanistan and Pakistan take a hint here?)

Through joint law-enforcement operations, Chinese and Myanmar police authorities have arrested more than 57,000 Chinese nationals suspected of fraud, dealing a devastating blow to the notorious four criminal clans in Kokang region, northern Myanmar, according to a statement released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Wednesday.

Recently, cases against the Wei and Liu family criminal syndicates were brought to prosecution. At present, all cases against the notorious “four criminal clans” in Kokang region have entered the judicial channels, the statement said.

In August 2023, the MPS tasked police in Quanzhou and Longyan, in East China’s Fujian Province, to separately carry out probes into the Wei and Liu criminal groups based in Kokang. On October 1, 2023, the Chinese police arrested nine important criminal suspects from the Wei and Liu criminal clans, including Wei Qingtao and Liu Zhengqi, on the border of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, according to the statement.

In December 2023, after gathering substantial evidence of illegal and criminal conduct by the Wei and Liu criminal clans, the police department issued reward-based wanted notices for suspects including Wei Huairen and Liu Zhengxiang, the statement said.

On January 30, 2024, under the China-Myanmar law enforcement and security cooperation mechanism, Myanmar police transferred suspects they had earlier captured — including Wei Huairen, Liu Zhengxiang, and Liu Zhengmao — to Chinese authorities.

Chinese police made four high-risk trips into northern Myanmar under the cooperation framework, recovering victims’ remains, tools used in the crimes, and substantial physical and documentary evidence. More than 1,000 police from Quanzhou and Longyan travelled to 28 provinces and regions across the country to collect evidence from telecom-fraud victims, according to the statement.

Since 2009, the Wei criminal syndicate in Kokang, led by Wei Huairen and Wei Qingtao, leveraged its family’s influence in local political, military and economic spheres to build 31 telecom-fraud parks. They solicited and attracted “investors” of telecom network fraud to move in, collected fees such as site rents, security charges, headcount fees, commissions and profit shares, and carried out illegal activities including telecom network fraud and online gambling, according to the statement.

The Wei group operated casinos and sex-entertainment venues, expanded prostitution, gambling, and drug businesses, reaping huge illicit profits, the statement said.

Police said the Wei syndicate is suspected of fraud, murder, intentional injury, kidnapping, extortion, running casinos, illegal detention, organizing prostitution, drug trafficking, permitting drug use, and organizing illegal border crossings. The group’s activities resulted in the deaths of eight Chinese nationals, involved over 5 billion yuan ($702 million) in fraud-related funds, over 9 billion yuan in gambling-related funds, and yielded more than 19 million yuan in illegal profits from organized prostitution, said the statement.

Since 2018, the Liu criminal clan, led by Liu Zhengxiang and Liu Zhengqi, has relied on the “Fully Light” group founded by Liu Zhengxiang to develop 28 telecom-fraud parks. They attracted “investors” for telecom and online fraud by taking equity, entering into partnerships, providing premises and network support, and by stationing armed forces to carry out armed intimidation and violent control. In collusion with these fraud backers, the Liu group jointly carried out telecom and online fraud, extortion, illegal detention, and other criminal activities, according to the statement.

The Liu criminal group operated casinos and sex-entertainment venues; developed prostitution, gambling, and drug industries; organized, solicited, and deceived people into illegal cross-border smuggling; and engaged in other crimes, including opening casinos, organizing prostitution, and trafficking drugs, from which it derived enormous economic profits, said the statement.

According to investigations by the public security authorities, the Liu criminal group is suspected of multiple crimes, including fraud, extortion, illegal detention, operating casinos, organizing prostitution, drug trafficking and organizing others to cross national borders illegally. The funds involved include more than 2.6 billion yuan from fraud and over 8 billion yuan from gambling; nude-chat extortion amounts to more than 17 million yuan, and illicit proceeds from organizing prostitution exceed 16 million yuan.

Global Times