Crypto scammer who fled China for London sentenced to 11 years in prison
by editors@theworld.org (Matthew Bell) from The World: Latest Stories on (#71D5F)
She was sitting on a pile of Bitcoin that British police say was worth more $7 billion, money that came from scamming thousands of Chinese pensioners. But on Tuesday, Qian Zhimin was handed a prison sentence of 11 years and eight months for money laundering. Judge Sally-Ann Hales told Qian that she was "the architect of this offending from its inception to its conclusion. ... Your motive was one of pure greed." The World's Matthew Bell reports.