Published 1 month ago

Ex-takeaway worker with £2bn of bitcoin bought multi-million pound homes and expensive jewellery

Jian Wen, from London, faces charges of money laundering involving a large amount of Bitcoin.
Wen's extravagant spending on luxury items and properties is under investigation for possible criminal connections.
Investigators seized over 61,000 Bitcoin in the UK's largest cryptocurrency bust, with suspicions of another culprit still at large.

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BBC News

Woman found with £2bn in Bitcoin convicted

Jian Wen, 42, from north London, was involved in converting Bitcoin into assets like luxury houses.

1 month ago·United Kingdom

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The Guardian

Ex-takeaway worker guilty of money laundering in £2bn bitcoin operation

Jian Wen became involved in a criminal racket converting cryptocurrency into assets including property and jewelleryA former takeaway worker found with bitcoin wallets worth more than £2bn, believed to be the largest ever seizure of its kind, has been convicted of a crime linked to money laundering.Jian Wen, 42, lived above a Chinese restaurant in Leeds when she became involved in a criminal racket converting the cryptocurrency into assets inclu…

1 month ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Independent

Ex-takeaway worker found with more than £2bn Bitcoin in biggest ever sting

1 month ago·London, United Kingdom

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Daily Mirror

How takeaway worker went from living in flat above Chinese restaurant to six-bed house with Bitcoin worth more than £2 billion

Jian Wen's moved from a flat over a Chinese restaurant into a six-bedroom house in north London in 2017, with rent of more than £17,000 per month, where she posed as an employee of an international jewellery business, and moved her son to the UK to attend private school, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said

1 month ago·London, United Kingdom

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Manchester Evening News

Former takeaway worker found with Bitcoin wallets worth more than £2bn

Jian Wen, 42, was living in a flat above a Chinese restaurant in Leeds when she became involved in a criminal racket converting the cryptocurrency into assets including multi-million pound houses and thousands of pounds worth of jewellery.

1 month ago·Manchester, United Kingdom

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