China is ‘UK’s largest safety menace’ as ‘Bitcoin Queen’ caught, say specialists
The National Crime Agency has revealed the origin of the most dangerous criminals operating in Britain. These criminals have amassed billions of pounds of wealth in crypto currency
The National Crime Agency has revealed the most dangerous foreign criminals operating in Britain – these heinous crimes include drug smuggling, modern slavery, cyber crime and even human trafficking.
The National Crime Agency Report highlighted it was “highly likely” criminals based in China or other countries “pose the biggest non-British serious organised crime threat to the UK”. Security and intelligence expert Professor Anthony Glees, of the University of Buckingham, said he was surprised about the number of Chinese gangs represented as the UK’s biggest overseas organised crime threat.
“A lot of people would have thought that enemy number one was Russia, but for the people who look in the nooks and crannies it’s the Chinese,” he revealed. “That’s their assessment and it’s very alarming.”
On these gangs the NCA noted the Chinese groups had become renowned for their “competitive and rapid service” and these services have allowed them to compete against hostile states such as Russia, reports Mail.
The agency added there was an “already high threat from Chinese-speaking money laundering networks in the UK” and these issues were growing.
These criminals include ‘Bitcoin Queen’ Jian Wen, a former takeaway worker earning £5,979 annually who was discovered to be in possession of a massive £3billion worth of crypto-currency.
The Bitcoin Queen also made millions washing dirty money for Yadi Zhang, also known as Zhimin Qian, who fled to the UK in 2017. Alongside this, her pockets were also filled with the dirty money she had bagged in a massive investment scam carried out in China between 2014 and 2017.
The woman’s incredibly lavish lifestyle included splashing a massive £30,000 a month in Harrods and paying a staggering £17,000 a month in rent for a £5million six-bedroom Hampstead mansion.
Jian Wen’s spending spree came to an end after she attempted to buy a luxurious £23million London home and failed to pass money-laundering checks.
These criminal money laundering gangs not only used cash-reliant businesses to smuggle capital but also turned to international students. In 2024 the Metropolitan Police broke up a seven-member strong “shadow banking” money laundering gang which specifically targeted international university students.
UK gangs have capitalised on the ability of these criminal networks to secretly move money across borders. Cash-heavy high street shops have long been used for criminal crime networks to clean dirty cash.
The NCA is actively tackling crypto-currency scams including Operation Destabilise, which disrupted a Russian money-laundering network worth billions – leading to arrests and seizures of cash and crypto.
