A London court on Tuesday sentenced 47-year-old Zhimin Qian, dubbed the “cryptoqueen,” to 11 years and eight months in prison for laundering criminal proceeds from a multibillion-dollar investor fraud in China. Police recovered
61,000 bitcoin connected to her with an estimated value of about $6.3 billion. Qian entered the United Kingdom in 2017 using a forged St Kitts and Nevis passport and attempted to convert the funds into property and high-value goods.