Chinese woman jailed after $10 billion crypto seizure
“Organised crime groups are using cryptocurrency to move, hide, and invest the profits of serious crime – but every crypto transaction leaves a trace,” said Will Lyne, The Met’s head of economic and cybercrime.
Qian was behind an unlicensed Chinese investment company that collected 40 billion renminbi ($8.6 billion) from about 128,000 investors across China between 2014 and 2017, the prosecutors said in the London court before she was sentenced.
The seizure of 61,000 Bitcoin in 2018 during a money laundering investigation was the largest haul ever of cryptocurrency by British police.Credit: Bloomberg
She “accepts her conviction and the mistakes that led to it,” Roger Sahota, her lawyer, said after the sentencing. “She never set…
