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UK Restaurant Worker Allegedly Laundered Bitcoin Fraud Proceeds in Dubai, Vienna

By Koos Couvée

A Chinese-born U.K. citizen used brokers in Austria and Dubai to launder millions of pounds' worth of Bitcoin for her friend, a fugitive fraudster from China, after solid due diligence thwarted her attempts to buy real estate in Britain, prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Southwark Crown Court in London heard that in September 2017, Jian Wen, 42, struck up a relationship with Yadi Zhang, whose real name is Zhimin Qian, after the latter fled to Britain on a St. Kitts and Nevis passport upon learning that Chinese authorities had named her as a key suspect in a vast cryptocurrency investment-fraud scheme that...

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