Bitcoin money launderer Jian Wen gets six years

A Chinese takeaway worker who helped launder Bitcoin from a £5bn investment fraud has been jailed for more than six years. Jian Wen, 42, acted as a front in the scheme after more than 128,000 investors were ripped off in a wealth management swindle. She tried to buy some of London’s most expensive properties, including a £23m Hampstead mansion. Wen arrived here in 2007 and lived modestly in Leeds between 2011 and 2017 before working at a Chinese takeaway in…

This Content is for Members only

Please register or login to access it

Register