(China, 8th) Recently, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in China lawfully executed the death penalty on Bai Yingcang, the main leader of the Bai crime group in northern Myanmar. On February 6, the "CCTV Legal Online" video account released video footage of Bai Yingcang's confession in court.
This footage from the courtroom quickly drew widespread attention after its release. In the video, Bai Yingcang appears gloomy and speaks in a heavy tone: "By now, I have lost my family, I have nothing left, so now I hate fraud no less than anyone else." He repeatedly emphasizes the word "hate," and admits that he organized telecom and online fraud, participated in drug manufacturing, kidnapping, operating casinos, and other serious criminal activities.
"I hate my ignorance, I hate my stupidity, I hate my unrestrained greed and short-sightedness." He confessed that during the nearly two years since he was extradited to China, "I finally no longer have to live in constant fear, and finally no longer have to painfully endure the kind of life that I hated yet was powerless to change." In court, he expressed a wish to apologize on behalf of his whole family to the Chinese people and government, "because the actions of our whole family have brought harm to tens of thousands of Chinese people. I am truly sorry."
The documentary footage also captured scenes from the "small dark rooms" in the telecom fraud compounds in northern Myanmar. On the mottled walls, someone had written with blood and tears a poem: "Looking outside the prison," "In March and April, rapeseed flowers bloom yellow, my heart in prison misses my parents. Miss my wife, miss my son, miss my hometown, when will I be able to leave prison?" There were also chilling inscriptions like "Help me, I want to go home," all expressing the utter despair of the imprisoned.
Bai Yingcang's confession of remorse is set against countless families' blood and tears; the end of greed is self-destruction. The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province previously announced that on November 4, 2025, a first-instance verdict was given in the Bai family crime group case. Bai Suocheng, Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi were sentenced to death, along with corresponding additional penalties, on multiple charges including intentional homicide, intentional injury, fraud, drug trafficking and manufacturing, kidnapping, and operating casinos. After the first-instance verdict, one of the main offenders, Bai Suocheng, died of illness, and the remaining four appealed.
On December 24, 2025, the Guangdong High People's Court held a hearing, lawfully rejected the appeals, upheld the original verdict, and lawfully submitted it to the Supreme People's Court for approval. On February 2, 2026, after receiving the Supreme Court's criminal ruling and death execution order, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court lawfully executed the death penalty on Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi.
According to reports, the Bai family crime group had entrenched themselves long-term in the Kokang region of northern Myanmar, using the so-called "family enterprise" as a cover to engage in large-scale cross-border telecom fraud, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and other organized criminal activities, severely endangering the personal and property safety of Chinese citizens and social stability. The scam compounds they controlled used violent means to restrain personnel and forced others into fraudulent activities. Victims were scattered across many provinces and cities, involving huge sums, and the social impact was extremely malicious.