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The Chinese 'Bitcoin queen', the £5.5bn stash and the five year police chase. Inside London’s crypto wars

With crypto crime soaring, perpetrators bagging billions and even resorting to kidnapping, can law enforcement catch up with the culprits?

Evening Standard · Nov 12, 2025

Fraudster who hid in London is jailed over £5.5bn bitcoin scam

Zhimin Qian cheated 128,000 victims in China through a Ponzi scheme before going on the run for six years

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2025

Chinese fugitive fraudster jailed in the UK over multi-billion crypto scam

Zhimin Qian, 47, defrauded more than 128,000 victims in China before trying to launder the illegal cryptocurrency proceeds by buying property in the UK.

Euronews · Nov 11, 2025

$6.7 billion in bitcoin scored in 'single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world'

A measly 61,000 bitcoins.

PC Gamer · Sep 30, 2025

Chinese woman convicted in UK over €6bn Bitcoin fraud after record crypto seizure

Zhimin Qian, 47, defrauded more than 128,000 victims in China before trying to launder the illegal cryptocurrency proceeds by buying property in the UK.

Euronews · Sep 30, 2025

Chinese woman convicted in UK after record £5.5bn bitcoin seizure

Met Police hails guilty plea in one of largest money laundering cases in history

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2025

Woman admits UK bitcoin fraud charges after ‘world’s largest’ crypto seizure

Zhimin Qian pleads guilty after wallets with 61,000 bitcoins, currently worth over £5bn, seized from north London home

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2025

Woman admits money laundering after seizure of £5.5 billion of Bitcoin

Zhimin Qian pleaded guilty to acquiring and possessing criminal property at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, the Metropolitan Police said.

Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2025

Woman convicted after Met Police make 'world's largest' cryptocurrency seizure worth £5.5bn

Zhimin Qian, 45, was convicted for her role in the multibillion Bitcoin fraud scheme

Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2025

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

The Bitcoin seizure is thought to be the biggest ever of its kind

Evening Standard · May 26, 2024