Jian Wen and the £5 billion Bitcoin fraud

A Chinese takeaway worker who helped a fugitive launder Bitcoin from a £5bn investment fraud is facing jail. Jian Wen, 42, acted as a front for Zhimin Qian, who fled to the UK from China in 2017, after ripping off more than 128,000 investors in a wealth management swindle. Qian – which means money in Chinese – flew to the UK in 2017 using a bogus St Kitts and Nevis passport in the name Yadi Zhang. Wen arrived here in…