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Chinese Woman Convicted After 'World's Biggest' Bitcoin Seizure
mercredi 1 octobre 2025, 00:20 , par Slashdot/Apple
![]() Malaysian national Seng Hok Ling, of Matlock, Derbyshire, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court of entering into a money laundering arrangement on or before April 23, 2024. According to the charge, he had been dealing in cryptocurrency on Qian's behalf, 'knowing or suspecting his actions would facilitate the acquisition or control of criminal property by another.' Between 2014 and 2017 Qian led a large-scale scam in China which involved cheating more than 128,000 victims and storing the stolen funds in bitcoin assets, the Met said in a statement. It said the 47-year-old's guilty plea followed a seven-year probe into a global money laundering web which began when it got a tipoff about the transfer of criminal assets. Qian had been 'evading justice' for five years up to her arrest, which required a complex investigation involving multiple jurisdictions, said Detective Sergeant Isabella Grotto, who led the Met's investigation. She fled China using false documents and entered the UK, where she attempted to launder the stolen money by buying property, said the Met. 'By pleading guilty today, Ms Zhang hopes to bring some comfort to investors who have waited since 2017 for compensation, and to reassure them that the significant rise in cryptocurrency values means there are more than sufficient funds available to repay their losses,' said Qian's solicitor Roger Sahota, of Berkeley Square Solicitors. 'Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are increasingly being used by organised criminals to disguise and transfer assets, so that fraudsters may enjoy the benefits of their criminal conduct,' added deputy chief Crown prosecutor, Robin Weyell. 'This case, involving the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the UK, illustrates the scale of criminal proceeds available to those fraudsters.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/30/2035246/chinese-woman-convicted-after-worlds-biggest-bitcoin...
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