China News Service, Beijing, January 30 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) China's Ministry of Public Security announced on the 30th that the Myanmar police handed over six people, Bai Suocheng, Bai Yingcang, Wei Huairen, Liu Zhengxiang, Liu Zhengmao, and Xu Laofa, to the Chinese public security organs in accordance with the law that day. The important leader of the Kokang electronic fraud criminal group in northern Myanmar and four other major criminal suspects.

On January 30, the Myanmar police handed over 10 major criminal suspects in northern Myanmar including Bai Socheng to the Chinese public security organs in accordance with the law. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Public Security of China)

  That night, as a Chinese civil aviation charter flight landed at Changshui Airport in Kunming, Yunnan, the 10 major criminal suspects handed over by Myanmar were successfully escorted back to China by the Chinese public security organs. This operation is another landmark achievement achieved by China and Myanmar in their international police law enforcement cooperation. It fully demonstrates the firm determination and strong will of the two countries to jointly combat transnational telecommunications network fraud crimes and work together to maintain security and stability.

  For a long time, multiple criminal groups in the Kokang Autonomous Region in northern Myanmar, led by Bai Suocheng, Wei Huairen, Liu Zhengxiang, Xu Laofa, etc., have organized and opened fraud dens, openly armed fraud, and carried out crazy telecommunications and network fraud crimes against Chinese citizens. The amount was huge, and he was also suspected of multiple serious violent crimes such as intentional homicide, intentional injury, and illegal detention. The criminal circumstances were extremely abominable, the harm to society was extremely serious, and the people were deeply disgusted.

  On the basis of grasping the relevant criminal facts and evidence, on December 10, 2023, the Chinese public security organs publicly offered rewards for 10 important leaders of the telecom network fraud criminal group in the Kokang Autonomous Region in northern Myanmar, including Bai Suocheng.

  With the strong support of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security sent a working group to Myanmar to carry out international police law enforcement cooperation. The working group held many rounds of talks and consultations with the Myanmar side to jointly crack down on telecommunications network fraud crimes, arrest and arrest and An agreement was reached to hand over the important leaders of the telecommunications network fraud group.

  Subsequently, the Myanmar police successively arrested six suspects, Bai Suocheng, Bai Yingcang, Wei Huairen, Liu Zhengxiang, Liu Zhengmao, and Xu Laofa, and four suspects, Bai Yinglan, Wei Rong, Wei Qingsong, and Liu Jiguang, were at large. On January 30, the Myanmar police decided to hand over the above-mentioned 6 criminal suspects who came to the case and 4 other major criminal suspects who were notified to them by the Chinese public security organs in advance. On the same day, the Ministry of Public Security of China organized police from the Yunnan Public Security Bureau to go to Myanmar to perform a charter flight escort mission and successfully escorted the relevant criminal suspects back to the country.

  The relevant person in charge of the Chinese public security agency said that in order to resolutely and completely eradicate the "cancer" of Chinese telecom network fraud crimes in northern Myanmar, the Ministry of Public Security and the Myanmar police continue to carry out law enforcement and security cooperation, and the Yunnan public security agency continues to deepen border policing with relevant local law enforcement departments in Myanmar. Law enforcement cooperation, thanks to the continuous crackdown in the early stage, so far, 44,000 suspects of Chinese telecom network fraud in northern Myanmar have been handed over to China, including 171 behind-the-scenes "financiers", organizational leaders and backbones, and 2,908 online fugitives , effectively cracked down on the arrogance of overseas fraud groups, and the crackdown achieved historically significant results. (over)