Thousands of Chinese lured abroad and forced to be scammers - now Beijing is cracking down

"Should I feel anything?" asks the beady-eyed man, sitting in a padded cell with handcuffs around his wrists.

He's being grilled by Chinese investigators about the time he allegedly ordered a stranger to be killed - a human offering to celebrate his sworn brotherhood with a business partner.

"Wasn't he a living, breathing person?" an investigator asks.

"I didn't feel much," the man maintains.

The scene may sound like it came straight out of a crime drama. In fact, it is part of a documentary on Chinese state media - a look inside the workings of the justice system almost unheard of in a country where court proceedings are largely kept out the public eye.

The handcuffed man answering questions is Chen Dawei, a member of the infamous Wei family, one of several powerful mafia groups that for years operated with impunity in Myanmar's border town of Laukkaing.