Takeaway worker who laundered £5billion in Bitcoin must pay back £3million - or go to jail A member of staff at a Chinese takeaway who helped launder Bitcoin from a £5 billion investment fraud has been ordered to pay back £3.1 million or face more than 13 years behind bars.
Wen arrived in the UK in 2007, living modestly in Leeds from 2011 to 2017 before she began working at a Chinese takeaway in Abbey Wood, southeast London.
The takeaway worker drove a Mercedes and flew her son from China 18 months later so he could attend the £6,000-a-term Heathside prep school nearby.
Police raided the Hamsptead property, known as the Manor House and seized a safety desposit box containing digitial wallets holding more than £1.4 billion worth of Bitcoin.
Wen denied but was convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court of entering or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement between October 2017 and January 2022.
