Woman Convicted After World’s Largest £5.5B Crypto Seizure
The Met Police has just closed one of the most extraordinary chapters in crypto history — and it involves billions.
A seven-year investigation into international money laundering has ended with the conviction of Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, the central figure behind a multibillion-pound Bitcoin fraud.
Back in 2018, the Met’s Economic Crime team acted on intelligence that exposed the transfer of massive criminal assets. The result? The seizure of 61,000 Bitcoin, worth over £5.5 billion today — making it the largest single cryptocurrency seizure in the world.
The backstory is as grim as it is shocking. Between 2014 and 2017, Zhang defrauded more than 128,000 victims in China, orchestrating one of the largest scams ever…
