前外卖工人被发现持有价值超过 20 亿英镑的比特币钱包，被判入狱六年多

42 岁的简文 (Jian Wen) 住在利兹一家中餐馆楼上的一套公寓里，当时她卷入了一场转换加密货币的犯罪活动

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

一名前外卖工人因被发现持有价值超过 20 亿英镑的比特币钱包而被判入狱六年多。

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 岁的简文 (Jian Wen) 住在利兹一家中餐馆楼上的一套公寓里，当时她参与了一项将加密货币转换成包括价值数百万英镑的房屋和价值数千英镑的珠宝在内的资产的犯罪活动。

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.

文没有固定地址，周三在南华克刑事法院因参与或参与洗钱安排被判处六年零八个月监禁。

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.

检察官此前表示，没有合法证据证明比特币是如何获得的，并声称其与中国的投资欺诈有关。

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

另一名嫌疑人被认为是这起欺诈案的幕后黑手，但他们仍然逍遥法外。

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

比特币被扣押被认为是有史以来规模最大的一次。

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.

温的新生活方式让她于2017年搬进了伦敦北部的一套六居室的房子，每月租金超过17,000英镑，在那里她冒充一家国际珠宝公司的员工，并带着儿子到英国上私立学校皇家检察署（CPS）表示，学校。

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.

从 2017 年秋天开始，她试图在伦敦购买一系列昂贵的房子，但很难通过洗钱检查，而且她声称自己通过开采比特币赚了数百万美元的说法也没有人相信。

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

2019年，她还出国旅行，在苏黎世购买了价值数万英镑的珠宝，并在迪拜购买了房产

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，温在南华克刑事法庭被判犯有一项参与或参与洗钱安排的罪名。

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.

这项有罪指控与洗钱 150 枚比特币有关，这些比特币当时价值 170 万英镑，但伦敦警察厅表示，其调查将她与更广泛的欺诈活动联系起来，并查获了超过 61,000 枚比特币。

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

CPS 在进行民事追偿调查时获得了高等法院的冻结令。

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.

在文宣判后，负责伦敦警察厅调查的指挥官史蒂夫·克莱曼 (Steve Clayman) 表示：“感谢伦敦警察局高素质侦探的辛勤工作和坚持不懈，我们已经能够瓦解一场复杂的经济犯罪行动——其规模之大。展示了国际犯罪分子如何寻求利用加密货币进行非法目的。

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

“我们的团队帮助确保了正义，并坚持不懈地追查比特币并查明与它相关的犯罪行为。