A Chinese fugitive has been convicted for attempting to launder £5.5bn from a house in Hampstead after running what is believed to be the world’s biggest cryptocurrency scam. Zhimin Qian, 47, defrauded more than 128,000 victims in her home country in an investment scam between 2014 and 2017. The Treasury wants to use her seized funds to help plug the hole in Britain’s public finances, but Chinese investors say the money belongs to them. Qian was arrested by Scotland Yard in April last year after she fled China under the name of Yadi Zhang and used a fake St Kitts…
Chinese ‘Goddess of Wealth’ convicted over world’s largest crypto scam
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