A Chinese woman dubbed "Cryptoqueen" was jailed in the UK for 11 years after defrauding 128,000 investors in a £5B Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, the country's largest crypto seizure.

A Chinese woman has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison in Britain for laundering money from a major scam in China.

A Chinese woman who masterminded one of the largest cryptocurrency frauds in history has been sentenced in the U.K. to ...

CABO FRIO, State of Rio de Janeiro — In April, Brazil's federal police stormed the helipad of a boutique seaside hotel in Rio de Janeiro state, where they busted two men and a woman loading a chopper ...

The case resulted in the UK's largest ever seizure of cryptocurrency, with 61,000 BTC, currently worth $6.3 billion, ...

As we reported in September 2025, Qian pleaded guilty to defrauding 128,000 victims between 2014 and 2017 before fleeing ...

Chinese 'Cryptoqueen' Zhimin Qian sentenced to 11+ years in UK for a £5 billion Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, defrauding 128,000 ...

Remember pirateat40, the e-currency banker we speculated could be the Bernie Madoff of Bitcoin? Well, it looks like he owes a lot of people money. On August 17, pirateat40 announced the closure of ...

A Chinese woman who was found with £5bn ($10bn) in Bitcoin after defrauding more than 128,000 people in China in a Ponzi ...

A Chinese woman who was found with 5 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) in Bitcoin after defrauding more than 128,000 people in ...