Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Sui Min Ma, a.k.a Frank Ma, the leader of a Chinese organized crime group, and Bing Yi Chen, a.k.a Ah Ngai, were both convicted in New York Manhattan federal court of murdering two individuals in Toronto, Canada on July 20, 1994 in connection with their heroin trafficking Chen was found guilty by a jury of two counts of murder on October 31.
Frank Ma's organization that operated principally in New York and California was engaged throughout most of the 1990s in heroin trafficking, the export of stolen vehicles to China, the robbery of computer chip manufacturers, illegal gambling, and alien smuggling. It committed five murders and one attempted murder in furtherance of its criminal activities.
On July 20, 1994, MA?s hit team shot their way into a business office where the intended victim was supposed to be, and killed Kwan Kin Ming and Yip Pak Yin, two office workers.
Ma and Chen both face a maximum term of imprisonment of life and a mandatory minimum of 20 years imprisonment on each of the two murder charges. Sentencing is presently scheduled for January 2008. The convictions of Ma and Chen were the result of ten years of investigative work into the Ma organization, which has to date resulted in 13 convictions. (Source: Media Newswire, Oct 31, 2007).