China executes mafia-style gang leader
December 13th, 2011 - 4:10 pm ICT by IANSBeijing, Dec 13 (IANS) The leader and two core members of a mafia-style gang that terrorised people in southwest China’s Kunming city were executed Tuesday, court officials said.
Gang leader Jiang Jiatian, his mistress Yang Jufen and Xie Mingxiang were executed after the Supreme People’s Court approved their sentences, said Ma Yukun, vice president of the Kunming Intermediate People’s Court.
Jiang, 58, made a fortune from drug trafficking in the mid-1990s and invested his earnings in at least 10 teahouses, Internet cafes and hotels in Kunming. He organized a gang of 41 members and nearly all of his businesses were used as dens for prostitution, extortion, racketeering, and the sale of drugs and counterfeit banknotes, Xinhua quoted Ma as saying.
Jiang and other core gang members were sentenced to death by the Kunming local court in 2009, but the father of Jiang’s mistress won a two-year stay of his execution after appealing.
- Ex-cop and brother jailed for running mafia in China - Jan 21, 2012
- French citizen gets death for drug trade in China - Aug 09, 2010
- Chinese court backs death sentence for gang boss - May 25, 2010
- Former Chinese soccer chief goes on trial for graft - Apr 25, 2012
- China's former soccer chiefs stand trial for graft - Apr 24, 2012
- Three gang bosses sentenced to death in China - Oct 22, 2009
- Four drug gang members get death penalty in China - Dec 26, 2010
- Two drug traffickers receive death penalty in China - Aug 08, 2010
- China sentences woman crime boss to 18 years in jail - Nov 04, 2009
- Police deny torturing China's former soccer chief - Apr 26, 2012
- Two Chinese officials executed for bribery - Jul 19, 2011
- 96 Chinese held in fake medicine racket - Nov 30, 2011
- Man injects HIV blood into girl - May 15, 2012
- China jails eight for selling fake sex pills - Nov 09, 2011
- Three jailed for life for 22 murders - Dec 29, 2011
Tags: banknotes, beijing, core members, court officials, drug trafficking, extortion, gang leader, gang members, hotels in kunming, internet cafes, local court, mafia style, mid 1990s, mistress, prostitution, racketeering, sentences, southwest china, teahouses, xinhua