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One Chinese court has handed down death sentences to five top figures of a well-known Burmese mafia to capital punishment as Chinese authorities continues its efforts on scam networks in the region.

Overall, twenty-one Bai family individuals and collaborators were found guilty of scams, murder, injury and various offenses, stated a official report posted on the judicial website.

The family is one of a small number of mafias that gained influence in the early 2000s and changed the underdeveloped remote area of the town into a profitable center of casinos and nightlife areas.

In recent years they shifted to fraudulent schemes in which numerous of trafficked people, several of them Chinese, are ensnared, harmed and obligated to cheat others in criminal enterprises worth huge sums.

Specifics of the Judgment

Syndicate head Bai Suocheng and his offspring the younger Bai were included in the five individuals given to capital punishment by the court in Shenzhen. Another individual, Hu Xiaojiang and Chen Guangyi were the additional sentenced.

Two members of the clan mafia were received conditional death penalties. Several were condemned to permanent incarceration, while additional individuals were given prison terms ranging from a period of 3-20 years.

The Bais, who led their own private army, set up 41 bases to accommodate their online fraud schemes and betting establishments, authorities said.

Scale of Criminal Operations

These illegal operations included more than 29bn yuan ($4.1bn; £3.1 billion). These activities also resulted in the deaths of six from China individuals, the self-inflicted death of one and several harm, state media reported.

The severe sentences delivered by the judicial body are part of China's campaign to remove the vast fraud rings in the region - and issue a strong message to further unlawful groups.

History of the Clans

Such groups rose to power in the early 2000s with the support of a prominent figure - who is in charge of the country's regime. The leader had aimed to support allies in the town after replacing its former warlord.

Among the groups, the this family were "absolutely number one", the son before told official sources.

Back then, we was the leading in both the political and military arenas," the individual stated in a report about the clan, broadcast on national media in July.

Within that documentary, a worker at one of their scam centres narrated the harm he had experienced at the location: in addition to being hit, he had his nails extracted with pliers and two of his digits cut off with a kitchen knife.

More Charges

The son is included in those who were given to execution in the latest ruling. He has also been separately sentenced of organizing to traffic and make eleven tons of illegal drugs, reports announced.

Decline of the Groups

Their end occurred in recent times as political winds changed.

Over a long period Beijing has encouraged the regime to limit fraudulent activities in Laukkaing.

Last year, the law enforcement released legal actions for the key members of such families.

Bai Suocheng, the Bai family's head, was among the individuals who were extradited to China from Myanmar in the beginning of the year.

"Why is the Chinese government putting so much effort to pursue the four families?" a Chinese investigator said in the summer report.

"It's to warn individuals, no matter your identity, your base, as long as you engage in such terrible offenses targeting the Chinese people, you will face consequences."