Metropolitan Police arrest woman for £5.5bn cryptocurrency scam

Zhimin Qian was jailed for 11 years and eight months after masterminding a scam which led UK police to make their largest cryptocurrency seizure of more than £5 billion in Bitcoin. The 45-year-old fleeced 128,000 people in China in a Ponzi-style investment scheme before jetting to the UK using a St Kitts passport, where she began laundering her ill-gotten gains.