前外送工人被發現持有價值超過 20 億英鎊的比特幣錢包，被判入獄六年多

42 歲的簡文 (Jian Wen) 住在利茲一家中餐館樓上的一套公寓裡，當時她捲入了一場轉換加密貨幣的犯罪活動

A former takeaway worker has been jailed for over six years after being found with Bitcoin wallets worth more than £2 billion.

一名前外送工人因被發現持有價值超過 20 億英鎊的比特幣錢包而被判入獄六年多。

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.

42 歲的簡文(Jian Wen) 住在利茲一家中餐館樓上的一套公寓裡，當時她參與了一項將加密貨幣轉換成包括價值數百萬英鎊的房屋和價值數千英鎊的珠寶在內的資產的犯罪活動。

Wen, of no fixed address, was sentenced to six years and eight months' imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday for entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement.

文沒有固定地址，週三在南華克刑事法院因參與或參與洗錢安排被判處六年零八個月監禁。

Prosecutors previously said there was no legitimate evidence for how the Bitcoin had been acquired and alleged it is linked to an investment fraud in China.

檢察官先前表示，沒有合法證據證明比特幣是如何獲得的，並聲稱與中國的投資詐欺有關。

Another suspect is thought to be behind the fraud but they remain at large.

另一名嫌疑人被認為是這起詐欺案的幕後黑手，但他們仍然逍遙法外。

The Bitcoin seizure is thought to be the biggest ever of its kind.

比特幣被扣押被認為是有史以來規模最大的一次。

Wen's new lifestyle saw her move 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.

溫的新生活方式讓她於2017年搬進了倫敦北部的一套六居室的房子，每月租金超過17,000英鎊，在那裡她冒充一家國際珠寶公司的員工，並帶著兒子到英國上私立學校皇家檢察署（CPS）表示，學校。

From autumn 2017 she tried to buy a string of expensive houses in London but struggled to pass money-laundering checks, and her claims that she had earned millions mining Bitcoin were not believed.

從 2017 年秋天開始，她試圖在倫敦購買一系列昂貴的房子，但很難透過洗錢檢查，而且她聲稱自己透過開採比特幣賺了數百萬美元的說法也沒有人相信。

She also travelled abroad, buying jewellery worth tens of thousands of pounds in Zurich and buying properties in Dubai in 2019

2019年，她還出國旅行，在蘇黎世購買了價值數萬英鎊的珠寶，並在杜拜購買了房產

In March, Wen was convicted of one count of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement at Southwark Crown Court.

今年三月，溫在南華克刑事法庭被判犯有一項參與或參與洗錢安排的罪名。

The guilty charge is linked to 150 Bitcoin being laundered which at the relevant time had a value of £1.7million, but the Metropolitan Police said its investigation had linked her to a wider fraudulent operation and it seized more than 61,000 Bitcoin.

這項有罪指控與洗錢 150 枚比特幣有關，當時價值 170 萬英鎊，但倫敦警察廳表示，其調查將她與更廣泛的詐欺活動聯繫起來，並查獲了超過 61,000 枚比特幣。

The CPS obtained a freezing order from the High Court while it carried out a civil recovery investigation.

CPS 在進行民事追償調查時獲得了高等法院的凍結令。

Following Wen’s sentencing Commander Steve Clayman, whose team led the Met Police investigation, said: “Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of highly skilled detectives in the Met, we have been able to disrupt a sophisticated economic crime operation – the sheer scale of which demonstrates how international criminals seek to exploit cryptocurrency for illegal purposes.

在文獻判決後，負責倫敦警察廳調查的指揮官史蒂夫·克萊曼(Steve Clayman) 表示：「感謝倫敦警察局高素質偵探的辛勤工作和堅持不懈，我們已經能夠瓦解一場複雜的經濟犯罪行動－其規模之大。

“Our team has helped secure justice and has persevered to trace this Bitcoin and identify the criminality it was linked to.

「我們的團隊幫助確保了正義，並堅持不懈地追蹤比特幣並找出與它相關的犯罪行為。