🔥🇨🇳 REGINA CRYPTO CINESE IN PRIGIONE — $6.4 BILLION OF BITCOIN SEIZED! 💰🚨

The Chinese town of Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, has been sentenced to 11 years and 8 months in prison by the Southwark Crown Court for running one of the largest investment frauds in Chinese history, defrauding over 120,000 elderly investors.

💥 Her empire, Lantian Gerui, lured victims with promises of wealth from crypto mining ventures and healthcare technology — but prosecutors revealed it was nothing more than a massive Ponzi scheme.

🏠 Qian fled China in 2017 using a false passport and lived lavishly in London, renting a villa in Hampstead for $21,000 a month until her arrest in April 2024. Police seized 61,000 BTC — now valued at around $6.4 billion — in what is described as the largest crypto seizure ever.

🧊 Her British associate Seng Hok Ling received 4 years and 11 months, while Jian Wen, her former collaborator, was incarcerated last year for laundering her fortune.

💬 Qian's diaries revealed bizarre ambitions — from buying a castle in Sweden to becoming “Queen of Liberland,” a micronation where the founder of Tron, Justin Sun, is now prime minister.

⚖️ The seized Bitcoin has sparked a standoff between the UK and China over who owns it — the defrauded investors or the British state, which could retain part of it under its Asset Recovery Incentivization Scheme.

💭 As one crypto analyst noted:

> “This could mark the birth of the UK’s first Bitcoin reserve — born from fraud, reborn as fiscal power.”

🧩 What do you think — should the UK return the Bitcoin to the victims or keep it as a national crypto reserve? 🇬🇧💸💬

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