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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jacob Phillips

Ex-takeaway worker with Bitcoin worth more than £2bn jailed for six years

A former takeaway worker found with Bitcoin wallets worth more than £2 billion has been jailed for over six years following a five-year cryptocurrency investigation.

Jian Wen, 42, was living in a flat above a Chinese restaurant in Leeds when she became involved in a criminal racket converting the cryptocurrency into assets including multi-million pound houses and thousands of pounds worth of jewellery.

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