Police recovered devices holding 61,000 Bitcoin in the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the UK. Photo: AP PHOTO

A Chinese woman who was found with STG5 billion ($A10 billion) in Bitcoin after defrauding more than 128,000 people in China has been sentenced by a UK court to more than 11 years in prison.

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Police said the investigation into Zhimin Qian, 47, led to officers recovering devices holding 61,000 Bitcoin in the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the UK.

Qian, dubbed "cryptoqueen" by British media, was arrested in April 2024 after spending years evading the authorities and livi

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