Zhimin Qian, also known as the ‘Bitcoin Queen,’ has been handed an 11-year, 8-month prison sentence by a London judge after she data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/usd7-3-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-recovered-from-newly-convicted-bitcoin-queen-funds-from-fraudster-thought-to-be-the-largest-seizure-to-date” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/usd7-3-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-recovered-from-newly-convicted-bitcoin-queen-funds-from-fraudster-thought-to-be-the-largest-seizure-to-date”>pleaded guilty to charges of possession of and transacting in criminal property in August of this year. According to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/chinese-bitcoin-fraudster-jailed-after-largest-uk-crypto-seizure” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/chinese-bitcoin-fraudster-jailed-after-largest-uk-crypto-seizure” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Bloomberg, Qian ran an unlicensed investment company in China from 2014 to 2017, which duped around 128,000 investors out of US$5.6 billion. She has been on the run since 2017 after Chinese police raided a company event, travelling throughout Southeast Asia on a…
