00:00China has pressed charges against some 39 individuals linked to notorious syndicates
00:07in northern Myanmar for telecommunications fraud, homicide, drug trafficking and other
00:12crimes.
00:14Prosecutors in Wenzhou City are spearheading the cases which involved cross-border crimes
00:19targeting Chinese citizens.
00:21There are a lot of members of the criminal group that are related to the Ming family.
00:26There are thousands of them.
00:29The main members of the criminal group, including the main culprits responsible for the death
00:34of Chinese citizens, 39 of whom are under the supervision of the Wenzhou People's Procuratorate.
00:41The other thousands of criminals are under the jurisdiction of the Wenzhou City District
00:45Court and the National Procuratorate.
00:48There are 16 Myanmar citizens in this case.
00:51But they committed serious crimes such as intentional killing in Myanmar.
00:56Because the target of the crime is Chinese citizens.
00:59According to Article 8 of the Criminal Law of China, the protection of jurisdiction,
01:03China has the right to exercise jurisdiction.
01:05In addition, they used telecommunication networks abroad to carry out fraud against Chinese
01:10citizens, set up online gambling houses to bribe Chinese citizens, and organized Chinese
01:15women to go out to sell silver.
01:17The prosecutors said the accused are linked to the family-run Ming syndicate founded by
01:22the late Mai-Shout Hakyan, who was a former member of Myanmar's Shan State Parliament.
01:28They said they are seeking death penalty for the accused whose actions were brutal and
01:33had endangered public safety.
01:35They said they had examined over 1,100 volumes of files, nearly 15,000 evidences, and more
01:42than 50 terabytes of data to build a case against the suspects.
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