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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Chinese businessmen ‘built London property empire from huge romance and crypto scams’

The UK has sanctioned two Chinese men accused of running “industrial-scale” scams from south-east Asia, freezing assets including 19 London properties.

Chen Zhi and Qiu Wei Ren were both added to the UK sanctions list on Tuesday as part of an international crackdown on fraud, along with a series of businesses linked to them.

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