Four involved in telecom fraud cases sentenced to life in China

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced four “key figures” involved in cross-border telecom fraud cases to life imprisonment as China stepped up a crackdown against the gangs luring local and foreigners to work in scam centres in Myanmar.

The four accused left China to form telecom fraud organisations with one of them, surnamed Yu, organising several people to go abroad to commit crimes, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) said.

In another case an accused Yang, who had been previously convicted for involvement in telecom fraud, was severely punished for taking part in the same crimes again, the SPC said, releasing details of the cases handled by Chinese courts recently.