2025-11-12
8 分钟A Chinese crypto queen has been sentenced to jail in London for laundering billions in stolen Bitcoin.
It's world business express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Liana Byrne.
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Yes,
the Chinese woman has been sentenced in London for her role in a Bitcoin scam worth billions of dollars.
Chiang Chi Minh was convicted of trying to launder more than 60,000 Bitcoins,
now worth around six and a half billion dollars,
following Britain's largest ever seizure of cryptocurrency.
More than 100,000 people across China invested, a man we are calling Mr Yu,
who spoke to us on condition of anonymity, took out loans and invested everything into the company.
For a while he was getting daily returns, but then in 2017 it all came crashing down.
We were just too weak to resist.
They just pumped up our dreams until we lost all self-control, all critical judgment.
Many families have been broken up.
People have been left without money to pay for medical treatments.
All this has really happened.
Our correspondent Nick Johnson is outside the court for us today.
Nick, what happened?
Well, this afternoon, Jimin Chan was jailed for 11 years and 8 months.