A woman on trial for allegedly laundering billions of dollars of Bitcoin into cash told a London court on Friday that she was the victim of skillful manipulation by a “super villain.”
Jian Wen is on trial for allegedly laundering Bitcoin in cash for Yadi Zhang, who ran a fraudulent investment scheme in China, who purportedly duped around 130,000 investors into parting with a total $6 billion.
Jian’s lawyer told the court that Yadi had used her as a “sacrificial lamb” in his megalomaniacal ambitions.
The defending lawyer said: “Yadi Zhang is a super villain and there’s no other way to describe that.”
When police raided Jian’s house, they seized Bitcoin worth more than $2 billion.
The trial continues.
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