Wenzhou: China carried out the death penalty on 11 key members of criminal gangs operating massive telecom fraud centres in northern Myanmar’s lawless border regions, state media confirmed on Thursday. According to reports, the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Zhejiang province executed the convicts after Supreme People’s Court approval, marking Beijing’s escalating war on billion-dollar cyber scams. Xinhua detailed how these mafia-style syndicates, one of Myanmar’s “four families,” controlled scam compounds in Kokang and Shan State, blending fraud with drugs, prostitution, and militias tied to the junta. “Evidence conclusive,” the Supreme Court ruled, allowing family meetings pre-execution. UN estimates $64 billion annual scam losses worldwide, half from SE Asia hubs.