Woman accused of helping fraudsters launder around £5bn using Bitcoin

42-year-old Wen Jian was charged with three counts of money laundering for allegedly assisting a Chinese woman named Yadi Zhang in laundering money, as reported by the Financial Times of the UK. According to prosecutors, Zhang stole about £5 billion from over 128,000 Chinese investors through wealth management fraud between 2014 and 2017, then converted the money into Bitcoin and arrived in London in 2017 under a false identity. Wen is accused of helping Zhang convert some of the Bitcoin into cash, jewelry, other luxury items, and property.