A woman with 61,000 Bitcoin worth 10 trillion won, I saw what kind of money it was...
Sep 30, 2025
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According to foreign media such as the Daily Mail, a Chinese woman, Qianzmin (aka Yadi Zhang, 47) pleaded guilty to possessing and transferring criminal assets at Southwark Crown Court in London, England, and is in custody ahead of future sentences.
She conducted a large-scale investment fraud on 128,000 people in China between 2014 and 2017, converted the damaged funds into bitcoin, and fled to the UK using counterfeit documents.
In September 2018 she attempted to launder money by purchasing properties in the UK, with the help of Jian Wen, a woman from China who was an employee of a takeaway restaurant at the time.
Arriving in the UK with only 5,000 pounds (about 9.4 million won), she immediately purchased a luxury £5 million (about 9.4 billion won) mansion in London. Since then, as many as 61,000 bitcoins (currently worth about 9.6 trillion won) have been found in devices seized by police at the mansion. It was recorded as the largest seizure of cryptocurrency in British law enforcement history.
However, at the time, the police only recognized in 2021 that Bitcoin was stored on the device, and in the meantime, Chienzmin disappeared.
She was later charged after being arrested in April 2024 in the city of York, North Yorkshire.
Director of Investigation "Her arrest was the beginning of a complex investigation that required multinational cooperation and thousands of document reviews"Her confession is the result of years of hard work by investigative teams in both Britain and China."
Meanwhile, accomplice Jian Wen was convicted of money laundering in 2014 and sentenced to six years in prison.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
