Zhimin Qian, 45, allegedly scammed more than 128,000 people in ChinaA crypto 'supervillain' who hoped to be reincarnated as a goddess and become a queen has gone on the run after an alleged bitcoin swindle.
But her dreams came crashing down when authorities discovered her alleged bitcoin swindle. Qian has been on the run since and is subject to an Interpol red notice. Qian - who fled Britain in 2020 and whose whereabouts are still unknown - allegedly used crypto exchange site Huobi to convert investor money into billions of pounds worth of bitcoin.
Prosecutors said Wen should have known Qian's money was illegally obtained due to her aversion to travelling to countries which had an extradition treaty with China. They seized wallets holding more than 61,000 bitcoin – making it one of the largest cryptocurrency seizures by law enforcement worldwide.
Last Wednesday, prosecutor Max Baines said Britain's Crown Prosecution Service was not seeking a retrial of Wen on those two counts, meaning the guilty verdict could be reported. EXCLUSIVEREAD MORE: Inside the landfill hiding £1.5bn in Bitcoin: Security teams and cameras guard dump around the clock over fears treasure hunters could try to DIG it up after computer expert accidentally threw crypto fortune in bin Advertisement The company claimed to engage in bitcoin mining, but UK court documents alleged that the company 'used near-obsolete equipment merely as a front to deceive would-be investors' when it took them to the firm's mining site.
She promised him that if trouble came up, she would help him out - but in July 2017, she fled China with a laptop containing the crypto wallet holding thousands of bitcoins transferred from Ren's Huobi account. She came to the UK in September 2017 on a flight from Laos using the St Kitts and Nevis passport before advertising a position as a 'butler' on Chinese social media app WeChat, claiming she was running an international business trading in diamonds and antiques.
Qian then engaged Wen to launder the proceeds of the alleged fraud in China in a series of eye-watering property purchases. Qian and Wen travelled around the world, holidaying in Europe, Thailand and Dubai under various aliases, while Wen opened a series of cryptocurrency accounts making meticulous notes of transactions in a Wallace and Gromit notebook.
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