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flag Chinese woman pleads guilty in London to laundering $5B crypto scam funds, linked to 128K victims in China.

flag Zhimin Qian, 47, a Chinese national known as Yadi Zhang, has pleaded guilty in London to money laundering linked to a $5 billion cryptocurrency scam that defrauded over 128,000 investors in China between 2014 and 2017. flag She fled to the UK in 2017 using false documents and was arrested in 2024. flag Authorities seized 61,000 bitcoins—worth over £5.5 billion today—from her home in 2018, marking the largest single cryptocurrency seizure in history. flag The investigation, spanning seven years and involving UK and Chinese law enforcement, revealed her attempts to launder funds through property purchases and her ambitions to create a micronation called “Liberland.” A co-defendant, Jian Wen, was previously jailed for six years and eight months. flag Qian remains in custody awaiting sentencing, while efforts continue to return assets to victims.

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