Chinese woman convicted in UK after record £5.5bn bitcoin seizure
A Chinese woman was sentenced in England after what the police described as the world’s largest crypto currency vigil – more than £ 5.5 billion.
47 -year -old Zhimin Qian was found guilty on Monday on charges of illegal acquisition and ownership in Bitcoin in Bitcoin in Southwark Crown Court.
Metropolitan police said in a statement, the name of Yadi Zhang, the Chinese citizen, between 2014-2017 in China in China more than 128,000 people were accused of managing a great deception, he said.
“Between the years 2014-2017 Zhang, more than 128,000 victims by defrauding a large-scale fraud in China, and Bitcoin assets began to store illegal funds,” he said.
Police officials, Qian’dan at least 61,000 Bitcoin were seized, he said.
Qian fled China using the wrong documents and entered England in September 2018. Polis said that he was trying to justify to mind by buying income with the help of an attacker Jian Wen.
Met police said that Qian’s arrest and conviction ended a seven -year investigation into the global money laundering plan.
“Today, for years, the detective sergeant Isabella Grotto pioneered the investigation of Met.
“When our team found Zhimin Qian, he had been fleeing justice for five years and triggered a complex investigation that required his arrest, evidence of more than one judicial field and the careful review of thousands of documents.”
“This is one of the largest money laundering cases in the history of England, and globally the highest valuable crypto currency cases, Will said Will Lyne, the economic and cyber crime commander of Met.
Probe helped MET’s safe “Cryptoassets’ criminal origins, which Qian is trying to launder in England.
The Royal Prosecutor’s Office, a 44 -year -old Chinese package service, helped Qian to transfer revenues from the deceptions of the deceptions and moved from his previous house on a restaurant in North London.
He was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison last year. MET and CPS found suspiciously expensive purchases of Wen, including two properties of Bitcoin value of more than £ 500,000 and worth £ 300 million in Dubai.
CPS, large amounts of Bitcoin, Wen without any evidence of how to supply, this is a source of crime, he said.
“Met researchers have proved that a crypto currency wallet containing 150 Bitcoin has been involved in facilitating the movement. It has a value of £ 1.7 million in the relevant time, M said met.
Police said Qian was detained before his conviction, an unidentified date.
