The chief of a fraudulent bitcoin The operation pleaded guilty to the crown of the Crown of the United Kingdom for its role in the scam of 5.1 billion pounds ($ 6.9 billion).
Chinese national Zhimin Qian, 47, was sentenced to granted and possession of criminal goods, namely the cryptocurrency, the metropolitan police announced on Monday.
Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, has frauded more than 128,000 victims in China between 2014 and 2017, which then stored its loot in BTC and fleeing the United Kingdom, according to the police.
She tried to whiten Bitcoin by buying a property with the help of her assistant Jian Wen. Wen, 42, was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for her role in the operation last year.
Metropolitan police qualified the bust of 61,000 BTC “which is considered to be the largest cryptocurrency crisis in the world”, in the Declaration of Monday.
There were reports earlier this year that the British government could seek to sell the BTC seized in this case, similar to what the German authorities did last year, which applied considerable sales pressure at the Bitcoin price at the time.
