ELEVEN members of a notorious organised crime family have been sentenced to death over international scam centres.

A Chinese court handed down the brutal sentence to multiple members of the Ming family , while other members were sentenced to suspended death sentences, life imprisonments, and fixed-term sentences.

The fixed term sentences ranged from five to 24 years.

Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming, Wu Senlong and Fu Yubin were six of the 11 defendants sentenced to die.

Other punishments included various fines, confiscation of property and deportation, a Chinese court heard.

A total of 39 Ming family members fronted court on Monday in Wenzhou, in eastern China .

According to China Central Television (CCTV), the Ming family criminal syndicate had expl

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