UK gov’t could sell $6.3B seized bitcoin to help economy, report
The billion-dollar bitcoin stash could help the UK out of a $25 billion black hole — if the government decides to sell.
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The billion-dollar bitcoin stash could help the UK out of a $25 billion black hole — if the government decides to sell.
Read more (2 min) →UK prosecutors claim the businessman was kidnapped at gunpoint while out playing golf and told to cough up $15 million in bitcoin.
An ‘investor’ who brought the UK’s first bitcoin freezing injunction is a Chinese takeaway worker linked to a $6B bitcoin laundering scheme.
Prosecutors claim estate agent offered Scottish land for money laundering, 'plain and simple,' in $5 billion UK bitcoin laundering case.
Takeaway worker Jian Wen bought property in Dubai and jewelry in Zurich to help convert the 3,000 bitcoin into 'more tangible assets.'
Jian Wen has been accused of laundering funds that were stolen from 128,000 Chinese investors and converted to bitcoin between 2014 and 2017.
Ashley Liles was supposed to investigate a 2018 data breach but instead switched the blackmailer's bitcoin wallet address with his own.