On November 3, 2025, the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong Province sentenced five members of the Bai family criminal syndicate—Bai Suocheng, Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi—to death for crimes including intentional homicide, intentional injury, fraud, drug trafficking and manufacturing, kidnapping, and operating casinos, along with corresponding additional penalties. After the first-instance verdict, Bai Suocheng died due to illness, while the other defendants appealed. The Guangdong Provincial High People’s Court, after holding a trial, rejected the appeals and upheld the original verdict on December 24, 2025, and reported it to the Supreme People’s Court for review in accordance with the law.
Upon review, the Supreme People’s Court confirmed that the Bai family criminal syndicate, led by Bai Yingcang and others, established multiple compounds in the Kokang region of Myanmar through self-construction and joint development. They recruited and attracted several “investors” like Yang Liqiang, providing them with armed protection, and colluded with these investors to commit crimes including telecom fraud, operating casinos, intentional homicide, intentional injury, kidnapping, extortion, and organizing or forcing prostitution. The funds involved in gambling and fraud exceeded 29 billion yuan, resulting in the deaths of 6 Chinese citizens and injuries to many others. Additionally, Bai Yingcang was involved in trafficking and manufacturing approximately 11 tons of methamphetamine.
The Supreme People’s Court held that defendant Bai Yingcang organized and led the Bai family criminal syndicate, providing armed protection for telecom fraud groups to commit crimes. Defendants Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi respectively organized, led, or participated in telecom fraud groups or gangs to commit crimes, constituting multiple offenses including intentional injury, intentional homicide, fraud, and drug trafficking and manufacturing. The crimes of Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi were of an exceptionally vile nature, with particularly severe circumstances and consequences, causing enormous social harm, and their offenses were extremely serious, warranting severe punishment according to law. The facts found in the first-instance judgment and the second-instance ruling were clear, the evidence was reliable and sufficient, the convictions were accurate, and the sentences were appropriate. The trial procedures were lawful. Accordingly, the Supreme People’s Court lawfully approved the death sentences for Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi.
Four Criminals from Bai Family Syndicate Executed
After receiving the criminal ruling and death warrant from the Supreme People’s Court, the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong Province lawfully pronounced and carried out the death sentences for criminals Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi. Before execution, the criminals met with their close relatives.
The Downfall of the Bai Family Criminal Syndicate in Northern Myanmar
The Bai family criminal syndicate case is the second case involving telecom fraud groups in northern Myanmar targeting Chinese citizens to enter the execution phase, following the Ming family syndicate case. Among the four major families in northern Myanmar, the Bai family held the most power, possessing the strongest private armed forces and the ability to infiltrate local politics, directly controlling several large-scale telecom fraud compounds in the Kokang region. What heinous crimes did the Bai family syndicate commit against Chinese citizens, and how were they brought to justice? Let’s examine.
Bai Suocheng, the patriarch of the Bai family, was born in 1949 in Kokang, Myanmar. He once served as Chairman of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone in Shan State, during which he appointed numerous family members and former subordinates to key local positions. His eldest son, Bai Yingneng, and second son, Bai Yingcang, held important positions in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone and controlled armed forces such as police battalions and militia units. The Bai family’s influence permeated political, military, and police circles, making other families in northern Myanmar’s Kokang region follow their lead.
