£5bn Bitcoin fraud mastermind had device containing £67m in secret pocket

£5bn Bitcoin fraud mastermind had device containing £67m in secret pocket

Yadi Zhang, 47, who is also known as Zhimin Qian, was arrested in York in April last year after spending years on the run.

£5bn Bitcoin fraud mastermind had device containing £67m in secret poc

The mastermind of a £5bn Chinese investment fraud was found with a device containing £67m of cryptocurrency in a secret pocket of her jogging bottoms when she was arrested after years on the run, a court has heard. Prosecutors are setting up a compensation scheme after Yadi Zhang, 47, conned around 128,000 Chinese investors into fraudulent wealth schemes between 2014 and 2017. Zhang, who is also known as Zhimin Qian, admitted money laundering ch…