In this national operation to combat Northern Myanmar e-fraud, a newly emerging force outside the daring "four great families" of Myanmar and North Korea was also included in the overall target, which represents the emerging criminal group of the new generation of Myanmar and North Korea, which is trying to get into the power class and share a piece in the turmoil.
From September 17 to 19, 2025, the Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court held a public hearing in the first instance to hear the case of Xu Faqi (Xu Laofa) criminal group. The criminal group with Xu Laofa as the ringleader is suspected of fraud, intentional injury, illegal detention, extortion and other crimes, involving more than 3,400 fraud cases, with a fraud amount of more than 1.1 billion yuan.
Let's see how China police can achieve the transition from "removing old lesions" to "preventing new mutations" while accurately cracking down on electric fraud in northern Myanmar.
The "survival formula" of the "emerging forces" in northern Myanmar: reproducing the "political, military and business" model of the four major families
On January 30, 2024, a chartered plane from Naypyidaw, Myanmar, to Yunnan, China, landed at Kunming Changshui Airport. As 10 major criminal suspects including Bai Suocheng, Liu Zhengxiang and Wei Huairen from the "Four Families" were escorted back to the country, an unfamiliar face also entered the public eye.
The Burmese Xu Old Fang, also known as Xu发启, has served as the mayor of the western mountainous district of Qingdao Guangdong Autonomous Region of Burma, the chairman of the "Songsong Group", and the general commander of the Guangdong Street militia.
Chen Yingping, deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Corps of Chongqing City Public Security Bureau: From the beginning to the end, the project was carried out around the three words Xu Laofa. This is the core of the core and the key of the key. He played the role of organizational leadership as the ringleader. Through Xu Laofa, we discovered Shengyuan Group layer by layer.
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Chongqing City Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation General Division Deputy Captain Wei Yongqing: 2019 is a turning point, because from 2019, the development of the entire Shenzhen Group has become a kind of well development, at first their park is very small, only fifty-sixty people; by 2019, there are more than three parks to start construction at the same time; by 2023, Xu Long has reached a peak.
The so-called peak is that in just a few years, Xu Laofa has successfully reproduced a miniature version of the "power triangle" like the four major families. In northern Myanmar, the foundation of family power always revolves around the legitimacy of political status, the adequacy of economic capital, and the authority of violent monopoly.
- Though the positions are small, they can deepen the grassroots, have the power to allocate land within their jurisdiction and lay the foundation for the expansion of the electric fraud park;
- The chairman of Shenzhen Group can use corporate operations to integrate the cross-border flow of various fraudulent resources to sustainable crime "profit";
- The commander-in-chief of the militia was Xu Longfeng, who sought to cooperate deeply with Kim and control the "precise configuration" of the park.
With these three titles, Xu Longfeng owns capital in northern Myanmar.
Crime Suspect: The company was called the Shenzhen Group. In order to earn more money, I applied for the militia, let the Lord help me to raise my troops and develop the troops.
After the political, military and business "power structure" model created by the four major families in northern Myanmar proved to be effective, any new force that wants to rise in the chaos in northern Myanmar will inevitably follow this path. Xu Laofa not only completed the "copying and pasting" of the power structure in a very short period of time, but also seized the "new outlet" for electric fraud crimes.
The police verified that in addition to traditional fraud, each fraud park controlled by Xu Laofa criminal group also recruited a large number of technicians, developed more confusing fraud apps, established funding channels for money laundering, and then organized fraudsters to commit fraud crimes by developing fraud agents, and made a commission from each fraud proceeds to gain benefits at different levels.
Wei Kunli, deputy detachment leader of the Anti-Fraud Detachment of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau: When other families are exposed to telecommunications network fraud, their local political resources and so-called military resources in Kokang are quite rich. But Xu Laofa is different from them. Compared with other families, Xu Laofa is a newcomer. As you can imagine, the terrible nature of telecommunication network fraud crime lies in the fact that it can make a very low-key and unobtrusive person explode in wealth in less than five years; From a security team with only a dozen people, it has grown to a so-called organized militia team with more than 400 people with regular militarization.
Kang Jian, deputy detachment leader of Big Data Investigation Detachment of Criminal Investigation Corps of Chongqing Public Security Bureau: Xu Laofa's criminal group is developing very rapidly. We can't let it spread like this. We must destroy it. Whether it's the first offender, the backbone of the gold owner or other backbone members or gang members, we always insist on this. As long as it has caused harm to us, we are all trying to find a way to arrest him, organize the evidence, and let him get a severe punishment by law.
The most direct complaint of blood handprint victims on the walls of the small black house against Xu Laofa criminal group
Eliminating Xu Longfeng, the emerging force in Myanmar and the North, is both the Chinese police in order to prevent the iteration and escalation of criminal groups, fight early and eliminate evil duties, but also a more forward-looking strategic shift after "fighting" with the traditional forces of the four large families, which marks the shift to combat the fraud in the telecommunications network of Myanmar and China from "end to end" to "destroy the soil", from "remove the inventory" to "contain the increase".
As the task force grasped the facts and fixed the evidence of Xu Laofa's suspected criminal group, the police discovered that although the emerging forces with miniaturized families and better at "modular" development, their criminal behaviors were more concealed and had lower costs, they were violent. However, they were no less violent than the "four major families".
Four times ago, I went to northern Myanmar to collect evidence. Among the massive electronic data and documentary evidence obtained by the task force, the bloody fingerprints on the wall of a small dark room were the most direct complaints left by the victim with his body, just like living evidence, silent but deafening.
Chongqing City Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation Team Anti-Fraud Civil Police Don Ayeon: At the time we passed the test paper test, we found that it was indeed a blood mark, the amount of bleeding was still very large. Back home for DNA comparison, so to find the victim at the time pressed two blood prints, or a very young guy, because the performance of electronic fraud was badly beaten, in the little black house without seeing the day feeling life hopeless.
These signs of blood and splinter sprinkled around the walls made the team members feel for the first time that “illegal detention” is no longer just a crime in the law, but the synthesis of countless moments of despair, a living life deprived of dignity, struggling in fear and darkness.
Kang Jian, deputy captain of the Big Data Investigation Detachment of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Criminal Investigation Corps of Chongqing City Public Security Bureau: There are a lot of regular characters painted on the wall of the small black room. Each stroke means that it has been closed for a day. There are rows of pictures drawn, and some of them are written on 12345. I saw that on one wall he had written 31 and a new month has begun. It's shocking. It makes me very sad that we China citizens suffer this kind of situation there.
Abuse, beatings, drug abuse, whoring, intentional injury, illegal detention, etc. are the same in Xu Laofa's electronic fraud park. Because of his unskilled business, Qing Moumou was broken with bamboo pieces; Because he disobeyed the management, Qiu Moumou's finger was chopped off.
Returns: Half of the fingers left after being cut off, infected with chlorophyll. After the bone was corroded, I threw the finger myself. After throwing it, after more than four months, it was like this.
The cruelty of the criminal group in its most intuitive form shocks the beliefs and determination of law enforcement officials. A suspicious “death message” arouses a high alert of the members of the trial team when interrogating a large number of returnees.
The dead are nicknamed Aron, the real identity is unknown, where the remains are unknown, although the suspected murderer has appeared, but there is no other valid evidence to support it except the oral confession. In March 2024, the clue was discovered, and in June 2024, the suspect fell into the network, but since then, the substantial progress of the case is like pressing the suspension key. For the member of the case team, there is more provocation than a challenge.
Wei Kunli, deputy detachment leader of the Anti-Fraud Detachment of the Criminal Investigation Corps of Chongqing Public Security Bureau: We couldn't find who Aaron was. At that time, these hands-on suspects provoked us and said, I admit that I beat him, and I also admit that I killed him. Do you have any evidence? I really don't know who he is if I die and see people. In fact, our investigators' hearts were really full of anger and energy. It is no exaggeration to say that there was really a belief in their hearts at that time. My detachment leader told me that if Xiao Wei's case can't be solved, there will be a stain on your career, which will never be erased.
Defending the dignity of life, the sense of mission in the hearts of law enforcement officers has also given rise to unshakable "psychological evidence"-finding evidence, identifying the deceased, and seeking justice.
Chongqing City Public Security Bureau Special Group Vice President Pen Jiangyun: We have always insisted that the death case will be broken, and once we find clues, we will be reluctant to pursue evidence in depth from all sides.
For more than 300 days without rest and more than 10 provinces, the task force finally obtained a valuable clue. The deceased, A Long, was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment when he was beaten and injured.
Crime Suspect Zhang Long: After being sent to the hospital, they called me to say that they beat people, sent to the hospital to rescue, rescue could not come, let Xu Long help deal with the aftermath.
According to Tussauds, the hospital in the north-eastern district of Burma was successfully locked, investigators extracted and analyzed 160TB of surveillance video data, finally found the same box of the suspect and the dead, multi-point continuous video, also indicated the dead were promoted to the hospital, and the entire process of being removed after death was proven.
Chongqing City Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation General Division Deputy Captain Wei Yongqing: On the day of the murder investigation, I and my colleagues have a feeling, finally can take my head out of the breath. Of course, there is a lot to do behind, there is a lot of evidence to be improved, the case is not possible to end this, it is definitely a long process.
The drug trafficking investigation found a fraudulent criminal group of more than $1.1 billion.
Organizing and fixing evidence is both difficult and arduous when fighting transnational crime, because this is a multi-dimensional game under the legal system, technical barriers and time and space. It is not a one-time action, but a long, fragile and fragile chain that is easily disconnected.
But in order to eradicate the criminal group and completely eradicate the soil for crime, the team does not let go of any clue, to ensure the correlation and probability of the core evidence, to take all necessary means for the police to take a thorough strike, provide the fullest justification.
During the investigation, the task force found that Xu Laofa was born in Yunnan and followed his father to Kokang, northern Myanmar since he was a child. Judging from his life growth trajectory, Xu Laofa was cautious and cautious, and he did not have much public information. However, his children, brothers, girlfriends and others do not keep a low profile. The Internet shows off everything from luxury cars, famous watches, and customized firearms.
So, before electric fraud emerged in northern Myanmar, what did Xu Laofa rely on to support their extravagant life?
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The case was filed for a long time, the difficulty of obtaining evidence was great, and the special case team thoroughly grinded the original material of the case, and continued to dig out the lines from the legal judgment that had already come into force.
In the end, under the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, the co-criminals were successfully arrested. When all the evidence pointed to Xu Laofa, the drug case of selling 12.08 kilograms of heroin finally had a clear cause and effect.
Chen Yingping, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Corps of Chongqing Public Security Bureau: How did drugs come from, how were they transported, how they came to China, how did funds go from China to overseas, and so on. Xu Laofa made an account when the evidence was very sufficient, and his account also confirmed our preliminary investigation and evidence collection.
Regarding the Xu Laofa criminal group, the police cracked down on it before it formed a close alliance between government, military and business like the four major families, in order to use greater efforts to break the cycle of "wildfire" of electricity fraud crimes in northern Myanmar.
The task force went to 71 cities in 18 provinces and cities in China to comprehensively investigate and collect evidence on all the criminal facts of Xu Laofa's criminal group, sorted out 21,000 documents and physical evidence, and found that Xu Laofa's criminal group was suspected of fraud, intentional injury, extortion, illegal detention, smuggling and trafficking of drugs, and illegally crossing the national (border) border, and found that the amount of fraud was more than 1.1 billion yuan.
Chongqing City Public Security Bureau Special Group Vice President Pen Deng Yun: The next step, we will continue to do well in the follow-up of this case, especially the evicting overseas owners, the backbone to bring them to justice.We will strictly combat cross-border telecommunications network fraud crime under the unified command of the Ministry of Public Security, and safeguard the safety of the lives and property of the masses.
(CCTV reporter Li Wenjie Xu Ping Zhang Gang Liu Gang Miao Yimeng Fan Yueming)