The 61,000 bitcoins in the Qian Zhimin case may belong to the British police and the Ministry of Home Affairs

Golden Finance reported that according to the "Daily Economic News", on Friday local time, a court in London, England made a sentencing ruling on a money laundering case involving Bitcoin. A Chinese-British woman, Jian Wen, was found guilty of He was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison for assisting his employer in laundering money. During the trial, Wen Jian admitted that he was involved in the handling of some cryptocurrencies, but did not know that they were proceeds of crime. Her defense lawyer Mark Harrie said that Wen Jian came from a lower class background and was originally a victim, but was deceived and exploited by Qian Zhimin. The British "Financial Times" reported that the British 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 will belong to the British police and the other half will be assigned to the British Home Office. . Huang Feng, a professor at the G20 Anti-Corruption and Fugitive Recovery Research Center at Beijing Normal University, said that according to British law, if the property victim makes relevant claims, the British courts will suspend the hearing of the civil recovery application submitted by the British law enforcement agencies to determine the relevant property ownership issue.