After the trial of the Wei family, the record of the old Japan cooperation remains: the relationship between Xi Jinping regime and the Goken crime family

Wei Qingtao had shown Binley, Lamborghini and private aircraft in social media, but in November 2023 he appeared in a grey sweater in a guilty plea video broadcast by the Chinese media. On 13 October 2026, the Fujian two courts sentenced to death and life imprisonment three persons to the first instance of 61 defendants of the Wei family criminal group. Beijing has shown arrests and trials, but rarely tells how the Wei family and other Goken families have been in contact with local Chinese officials for long periods of time.

in the Washington Post independent survey of June 2024, which looks at Chinese company registrations, historical government announcements, archived photographs, judicial documents and interviews with over 20 informed individuals, and finds that the Godangwey, Baek and Liu families have been involved for many years in a campaign against the Chinese company. Local officials in Yunnan maintain close commercial and political relations. Journalists also checked more than 1100 Chinese criminal cases related to Koo-Chang and found that most of them were concentrated on the bottom-up players in the gambling, trafficking and drug industries, while some family leaders were still involved in official commercial cooperation in China. This is an inconvenient history for the anti-fraud propaganda of the Xi Jinping regime.

In 2009, the military and political landscape changed with the local executive, commercial and armed influence of the Wei, Bai and Liu families. They have power within the Myanmar military border system, and they operate casinos and border trade. According to official Chinese information retrieved by the Washington Post, Yunnan local authorities are involved in the construction of ports, cross-border economic zones and so on with the local institutions controlled by these families. In 2017, the State television station of China demonstrated the expansion of the Qinghu River crossing as a result of border cooperation, with a central subsidy for the border trade zone. During Xi's “one-way journey”, cross-border cooperation was seen as a means of maintaining border stability.

A normal trade project does not prove that the officials involved were directly involved in fraud. However, this record of public cooperation at least confirms that the family is not entirely outside the sphere of the Communist Party power system. They have local political identity, armed and entrepreneurial capacity and are also received in China ' s official trade and trade. The Chinese media then focused on the elimination of these groups, with little explanation of which institutions had cooperated with them in the past, when the relationship had ended and whether warnings had been received about the violence and fraud at the time.

The political and armed interlocking has a direct impact on ordinary people in the park. The United Nations and victim testimony documented that a large number of trafficked persons were being held in centres of fraud, beaten, extorted and forced labour. Public security issues reveal that the Wei family holds the officially recognized armed border camp in Myanmar and that Chen David even chose the detained Mahed to be the victim of what he called “killing and sacrifice” when he was worshipping the gold lord of the park. The forced fraudster is not faced with an ordinary operator, but a gun-held organization that can determine whether he is free or not.

On 13 October, the Court informed that the Henry's Group, led by Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Qinghai and Wei Qingtao, had set up several parks on Goken Old Street, engaged in the recruitment of “gold owners” and provided armed shelter, and engaged in fraud, casinos, extortion, the organization of prostitution and drug trafficking. Over $12.2 billion in gambling-related fraud and four Chinese citizens died as a result of two groups of violent crimes. The court ' s decision at first instance brought specific criminal responsibility to the judgement, but was not a substitute for historical statements of long-standing political and commercial relations; Nor is the funds involved equal to the loss of the victim who has been recovered.

China's concentrated strike on the Goken family occurred in

1. The anger of victims of fraud and families of trafficked persons was rising at that time, and international anti-trafficking investigations were also receiving attention. The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar made a public call in August to combat fraud, and in November Wei Qingtao appeared in a confession video, and in December more family leaders were wanted. The new round of United States sanctions and judicial actions against the Southeast Asia Fraud Network in 2025 occurred after that and cannot be directly considered as the established cause of the arrests in 2023.

A family could be considered a partner in border-building and trade cooperation, or declared a criminal group after the political winds changed. What is truly worth investigating is the historical link between the two identities. The first instance judgement of 2026 listed the criminal responsibility of 61 defendants, while the political transactions revealed by the old Government Proclamation, cooperation photographs and business records remained another part of the facts that had to be faced in the Xi Jinping regime ' s counter-fraud narrative.