British media: Qian Zhimin case 61,000 bitcoin or owned by the British police and the Home Office
2024-05-25 15:11:28
According to the "Daily Economic News", on Friday local time, a court in London issued a sentencing ruling in a money laundering case involving bitcoin. A Chinese-British woman, Jian Wen, was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for assisting her employer in money laundering. The British "Financial Times" reported that the Crown Prosecution Service has initiated civil recovery proceedings in the High Court for these seized assets. If no one else claims rights to the criminal assets, half of them will be owned by the British police and half will be transferred to the British Home Office.
Huang Feng, a professor at the G20 Anti-Corruption, Fugitive and Asset Recovery Research Center of Beijing Normal University, said that according to the provisions of British law, if the property victim makes relevant claims, the British court will suspend the hearing of the civil recovery application submitted by the British law enforcement agency to determine the ownership of the relevant property.