On December 10, China's Ministry of Public Security announced that 10 important leaders of telecommunications network fraud criminal groups, including Bai Suocheng, Wei Huairen, and Liu Zhengxiang (the three major families of Bai, Wei, and Liu), in the Kokang region of northern Myanmar, were publicly wanted by the Chinese side, and on November 12, Ming Xuechang, who committed suicide after being publicly wanted by our side, and the four major families involved in telecommunications fraud in northern Myanmar were all on China's wanted list.
China has taken a multi-pronged approach
Since October this year, when the Kokang Alliance, a local armed force in northern Myanmar, suddenly stepped out of the jungle to crack down on telecommunications fraud and launched Operation Hurricane, the Chinese side has continued to make moves, arresting Bao Yanban, minister of construction of Wa State, and He Chuntian, head of Mengneng County. The two were subsequently removed from their posts and expelled from the party and the military by the Wa State Autonomous **.
In October, Wei Qingtao, Liu Zhengqi, and Bi Huijun, members of the four major Kokang families in northern Myanmar arrested by the Chinese side, recorded a record to persuade the family to surrender"Can no longer engage in telecom fraud, this time China ** made up its mind that it will not withdraw troops if it does not clear the wire fraud"。
In mid-November, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, publicly offered a reward for the arrest of Ming Xuechang, the former head of Kokang County in northern Myanmar, and four key members of his family.
On November 25, the Southern Military Region announced that it would hold a live-fire exercise on the Chinese side of the China-Myanmar border.
In early December, when meeting with Myanmar's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dansui in Beijing, he stressed that the recent cooperation between China and Myanmar in cracking down on wire fraud in northern Myanmar and rescuing trapped people has achieved results, which has effectively deterred lawbreakers. The two sides should strengthen cooperation in law enforcement and security, and thoroughly eradicate the cancer of online gambling fraud.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Myanmar's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dansui in Beijing.
On December 10, the Ministry of Public Security announced that the three major families of Bai, Wei and Liu, headed by Bai Socheng, in the Kokang region of northern Myanmar, would be wanted with a reward.
Inside, the Kokang Allied troops came to the city and besieged the urban area of Kokang Old Street;With China's pressure through diplomatic channels and the issuance of arrest warrants, the "myth of getting rich and getting rich" by the four major families in northern Myanmar has been shattered, and it is fast approaching the end of the road.
The origin of the four families
The old four families refer to: Bai Suocheng, Wei Huairen, Liu Zhengxiang (also known as Liu Abao), Liu Guoxi four families, at that time the Ming Xuechang family was still attached to the Bai Suocheng family. When it comes to the origin of the four major families, we have to mention the "Kokang King" Peng Jiasheng, Bai Suocheng, Wei Huairen, and Liu Guoxi were all subordinates of Peng Jiasheng during the period of the Communist Party of Burma, and in 1989, Peng Jiasheng broke away from the Communist Party of Burma to establish the Kokang Alliance, and was entrusted with important tasks by Peng Jiasheng, especially Bai Socheng, the head of the four major families, served as the deputy commander of the Kokang Alliance.
Picture: "Kokang King" Peng Jiasheng.
In 2009, the "88 Incident" occurred in Kokang, the Burmese ** army entered the Kokang area to search on the grounds of anti-narcotics, and clashed with the Kokang Allied Army led by Peng Jiasheng.
Liu Zhengxiang, one of the four major families, is not a subordinate of Peng Jiasheng, but has always had a close relationship with the Myanmar Army, and with the support of the Army, he founded the Welfare Group by accepting the industry of the big drug lord Liu Ming, and became the richest man in northern Myanmar, and served as the president of the Kokang Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry. After Peng Jiasheng was defeated and left Kokang Old Street, he and Bai Socheng, who defected to the Burmese ** army, jointly divided the Kokang area, and finally formed the four major families in the Kokang area.
Picture: Liu Zhengxiang, one of the four major families.
Figure: Liu Zhengxiang's family welfare to the group.
The Liu Guoxi family, the only one of the four old families who is not wanted, has always been relatively low-key. After Liu Guoxi's death in 2022, his children did not hold any substantive positions in the Kokang Autonomous Region**, and his family influence is not as good as that of the Ming Xuechang family, which was uprooted by the Chinese side before.
Figure: Liu Guoxi, one of the four major families.
Ming Xuechang, the head of the Ming family who was first uprooted by the Chinese side, was originally a subordinate of Peng Jiasheng, and successively served as the chief of the financial section of the Kokang Special Administrative Region, the deputy head of Dongshan District, the district head, and the deputy county magistrate of Kokang County , the strength is in full swing, has caught up with the old Liu Guoxi family, so some people say that the family has replaced the Liu Guoxi family to become one of the new four families, and some people say that with the rise of the Ming family, the courage from the "four families" to the "five families".
Figure: Ming Xuechang, one of the four new families.
Bai Suocheng, the founder of the Bai family, the head of the four major families, followed Peng Jiasheng to participate in the guerrillas in his early years, and was promoted to deputy division commander from the grassroots level during the period of the Communist Party of Burma, and after the establishment of the Kokang Special Administrative Region, he successively served as the deputy commander of the Kokang Allied Army, vice chairman of the Kokang Special Administrative Region, and other positions, after the "88 Incident", he was appointed as the chairman of the Kokang Autonomous Region by the Myanmar ** Army.
Figure: One of the four major families, made of white.
Wei Chaoren, the last head of the four major families, a descendant of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, has been following Peng Jiasheng to participate in the revolution in his early years, is Peng Jiasheng's right-hand man, once served as the deputy commander of the Kokang Alliance, and defected to the Burmese ** Army during the "88 Incident", and its armed forces were reorganized into border battalions, controlled by his third brother Wei Huairen, so the Wei family is the only family in the four major families that controls the military power of the regular army, and establishes the status of the second largest family in the Kokang region of the Wei family. Although Wei Chaoren has passed away, his family's power has not diminished. The famous Henry Group is the Wei family's industry, which includes the new Jinjiang Casino.
Figure: Wei Chaoren, one of the four major families.
Figure: Wei Chaoren's family, Henry Group.
Boldly usher in an unknown future
Located on the border between China and Myanmar, the Kokang region is under the jurisdiction of the local armed forces of ethnic minorities. After Peng Jiasheng was defeated and left the Kokang area, the Kokang area was entrenched by many forces, forming three major armed forces in addition to the Burmese army: the militia brigade, the border battalion and the police battalion. They were controlled by the Bai family, the Wei family, and the Ming family.
All forces have supported themselves in their respective jurisdictions, and Kokang in northern Myanmar has become a place outside the law, including drug trafficking, P2P and other underground illegal economies are rife. In recent years, telecom fraud gangs have relocated their dens to make huge profits in collaboration with some local family forces, and used local family forces to protect telecom fraud groups, thus making northern Myanmar a hotbed of telecom network fraud. China's first heavy attack this time to completely eliminate this "electronic drug" that endangers the Chinese people, and all forces in northern Myanmar will inevitably face under China's crackdown"Reshuffle", evildoers"Four families"The road is coming to an end. And the Kokang region, which is under heavy artillery fire, will embark on the unknown road again!