LONDON—A Chinese national who police said bought cryptocurrency now worth billions using funds from Chinese investors has been sentenced by a UK court to 11 years and eight months in prison for money laundering.
Southwark Crown Court on Nov. 11 was told of a seven-year hunt to find Qian Zhimin, who set up a company in China called Lantian Gerui (Blue Sky) and, between 2014 and 2017, duped about 128,000 people into investing in her company, which claimed to be developing health products. Qian then converted about 20.2 million pounds ($26.5 million) of the illegally obtained money into bitcoin.
The investment fraud led to losses of about 600 million pounds ($788 million), according to the Crown Prosecution Service….
UK Court Hears of 7-Year Odyssey to Find Mastermind of $5.62 Billion China Fraud
