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Former takeaway worker guilty of £2billion Bitcoin fraud

A former takeaway worker has been convicted of laundering more than £2 billion in Bitcoin after police discovered she’d moved from a flat above a Chinese restaurant to a multi-million pound house in North London. Jian Wen, 42, was found guilty of money laundering at Southwark Crown Court following a Metropolitan Police investigation resulted in the seizure of Bitcoin wallets from Wen. Prosecutors told the court the sheer scale of the seized Bitcoin, the lack of any legitimate evidence for how it was acquired and its connection to a massive investment fraud in China, all indicated that it was c…