Reported by Reuters (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/chinese-fraud-mastermind-jailed-uk-laundering-bitcoin-2025-11-11/) The mastermind of a vast Ponzi scheme in China, which conned nearly 130,000 investors, was jailed in Britain on Tuesday for over 11 years for laundering the proceeds of the fraud into cryptocurrency now worth billions of dollars. Qian Zhimin pleaded guilty to two […]

Reported by Margaret Davis (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/shops-raided-money-laundering-barbers-vape-operation-machinize-b2862383.html) Barbers, minimarts, and vape shops are among the 2,700 high street businesses that have been raided in the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering. Officials state that these cash-rich establishments, which have proliferated across British high streets in […]