Ming family syndicate

One of Kokang's 'four families', from Laukkai, with its own militia and business empire in casinos and property.

Per the Wenzhou court, an armed crime group that from 2015 built compounds in Laukkai, Shiyuanzi and Chinshwehaw and sold financiers protection to run telecom fraud and gambling; 14 Chinese citizens died at its hands.

The Ming family, led by Ming Xuechang, was one of the four clans that carved up Kokang after 2009, and from 2015 built walled compounds at Laukkai's Crouching Tiger Villa and elsewhere where trafficked Chinese ran telecom and investment fraud under the family's armed protection. When compound guards shot fleeing workers in October 2023 China issued wanted notices for Ming Xuechang, his son Ming Guoping, daughter Ming Julan and granddaughter Ming Zhenzhen; the patriarch died during the arrest and the others were handed over. The Wenzhou court sentenced 11 to death in September 2025 for homicide, fraud and running casinos, and China executed them on 29 January 2026.

Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court, 29 September 2025: 11 sentenced to death (including Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen), five to suspended death sentences, others to prison; funds involved put at over ¥10B. Appeals rejected 25 November 2025; the Supreme People's Court approved the sentences and the 11 were executed on 29 January 2026.