Multiple death penaltiesThe Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court in China’s Zhejiang province has sentenced 11 people to death over their alleged role in a $1.4bn illegal gambling scam operation in Myanmar. At the Monday trial, the judicial body handed five other suspects death sentences suspended for two years. the Myanmar syndicate supposedly provided armed protection for multiple “financial backers”The court’s report details an October 2023 incident in which Ming shooters opened fire on scam compound workers to try block their transfers back to China. A few days after the report, the US Treasury hit cyber scam operators in Myanmar and Cambodia with sanctions, claiming they’d stolen over $10bn from Americans. According to a recent United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warning, East Timor is the new “scam center hotspot.”