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Wow, this Zhimin Qian story is just too absurd. The British police recovered 6 billion dollars in Bitcoin from a massive Ponzi scheme. This Chinese woman deceived over 128,000 people, fled the country with fake documents back in 2017, and continued running the scam from abroad. She was only caught now and admitted guilt.
What’s most shocking is the scale of it. 61,000 BTC seized, the largest crypto crime operation in UK history. Zhimin Qian promised high returns to the elderly and middle class, all obviously lies. And she managed to keep it running for so long before being caught.
Now she faces up to 14 years in prison. I keep thinking about how many victims are still trying to sue after being scammed. This kind of case shows why we need to be so careful with promises of easy returns in crypto.