6.1万枚比特币案中案:13万人被骗63亿美元涉案 神秘华人在幕后操盘
居住在每月租金高达15.5万元的豪宅,每天不是豪车傍身各地旅游,就是在高端商场挥金如土数十万,珠宝首饰满地跑,甚至连买房都是数栋别墅起买......
仅从描述来看,很难想象到这是一个英国普通外卖员的生活,而这一切,却的的确确在华裔女子温俭(Wen Jian)身上发生了。不用细想,也知道事出反常必有妖,警方自然顺理成章盯上了她。
3月18日,英国法院判42岁的温俭参与洗黑钱罪名成立,于5月10日判刑,而在调查期间,警方查获逾6.1万枚比特币,当前价值约34亿英镑,为历来查获的最大额加密货币。主犯涉案总额达到了骇人的63亿美元,该案件也因此成为了全球最大的洗钱案。
与所有一夜暴富却又半空折翅的故事类似,温俭也遇到了她所谓的人生“贵人”。要不是英国警方的调查,或许温俭仍然一辈子活在暴富的美梦与对恩人的感激里,但很可惜的是,最后却是她受牢狱之灾,贵人,却已不知去向。而殊不知这一出“霸道总裁爱上我”的闹剧,竟又牵扯到了我国七年前的一起大案——蓝天格锐的430亿元非法集资案。
这起事关6.1万枚比特币的案中案,也变得更为扑朔迷离了起来。
案起:一朝遇“贵人”,外卖员骤然暴富
从身世来看,温俭并无异于常人之处,甚至一度日子过的很是清贫。1982年出生的温俭在中国的一个工人家庭中长大,家境普通,后续遇到了丈夫马库斯·巴拉克拉夫。2007年,温俭怀孕,通过配偶签证来到英国。
温俭照片,来源:网络公开
但三口之家很快破灭,儿子出生后不久,温俭就和丈夫离婚,成为了一名单亲妈妈,日子拮据。温俭也并未放弃自己,即使生活艰难,其也在利兹获得了法律和经济学学士学位。2017年,温俭搬家到伦敦,为了养家糊口,她住在伦敦东南部阿比伍德一家中餐外卖店的地下室,担任该餐厅的外卖员,年入5,979英镑(约5.4万人民币),这对于一个英国的单亲妈妈,简直是杯水车薪。为了缓解经济压力,温俭到处打零工身兼数职,或许是本身知识水平相对较高,在此期间,她也接触了部分加密货币的临工需求。
改变命运的开端是一则招聘。温俭偶然间在微信上看到的一则招聘信息,一名自称从事钻石和古董国际贸易的女性想找一位“管家”,薪酬十分优渥。没有犹豫多久,温俭就联系了这位神秘的招聘者。
而这一联系,也让温俭未来的人生“贵人”——钱志敏(化名为Zhang yadi),正式浮出水面。
在肯辛顿的五星级皇家花园酒店,两人交谈甚欢,钱志敏很快就聘请温俭成为了她的专职陪护和管家,月薪3万元,还包括百万的奖金。或许是为了展示自己的阔绰与信任,就在见面当天,钱志敏就支付了温俭4万英镑。就这样,温俭从地下室搬进了汉普斯特德月租超过15万的豪宅,开始了她的逆袭生活。
她的工作很简单,一是开设加密货币账户进行交易变现并记录在案;二就是替雇主花钱。
据温俭描述,此前遭受过车祸的钱志敏腿脚不便,呼吸沉重,身体亦是十分虚弱,每天有超过20个小时待在床上,且时常做噩梦,醒来后就是用笔记本玩游戏与购物,以及卖比特币。
随后,两人包装成珠宝交易商,用化名在欧洲各国游走,将变现的比特币换成高级珠宝,曾在梵克雅宝豪掷百万购买手表。各种资金源源不断经由温俭的账户以各种形式转至钱志敏处,而钱志敏也兑现了诺言,温俭获得了梦寐以求的优渥生活。温俭的儿子被送去豪宅旁的Heathside预科学校,每学期学费达到6000英镑,温俭还购入了一辆价值25,000英镑的奔驰E级轿车,并成为了顶级奢侈品百货Harrods的尊贵VIP,短短三个月,她就在Harrods购买了超过9万英镑(约81万人民币)的名牌服装、珠宝和鞋子。
温俭与钱志敏共住的英国豪宅,来源:网络公开
除了珠宝和日常开支,房产也是花钱的重中之重。在迪拜,温俭斥资50万英镑购买了一套公寓;在意大利,她竞拍下一栋价值1千万英镑的威尼斯海景古董洋房,随后,温俭又在伦敦购买了价值450万英镑的房产。
2018年,就在她试图以2,350万英镑(约2亿人民币)购买汉普斯特德的一幢有7间卧室、带游泳池的豪宅,以及附近一幢价值1,250万英镑(约1亿人民币豪宅)时,超大额的房产消费引起了监管的注意,根据英国现行要求,监管机构要求温俭提供资金合法的证明,证明未违反反洗钱规定,但温俭显然拿不出来,最后交易作罢,这也让警方产生了怀疑。
案转:警方碎美梦,6.1万枚比特币浮出水面
2018年10月31日凌晨,警方拿到搜查令进入了温俭和钱志敏的家中,当场缴获了6.9万英镑现金,并获取了存放在金属罐中的笔记本电脑、平板电脑、一个粉红色U盘以及私钥密码,而就在第二天,警方再度发现保险箱中的电子设备。但彼时不知是否由于证据不足,警方并未将两者拘留,反而在半年后归还了两者护照。
警方在温俭家缴获的现金,来源:凤凰网
在调查了将近2年后,2020年,警方再度对两人豪宅实施搜查,也就在这次搜查的一个月后,嗅到危险的钱志敏从英国销声匿迹。
2021年,在耗时3年解锁后,英国警方最终确认电子设备中拥有超过61000枚比特币,这是英国执法部门有史以来缴获的最大数量的比特币之一。根据当时的价格,这批比特币价值高达14亿英镑(约127亿人民币),现在价值超过34亿英镑(约310亿人民币)。
2021年5月,温俭正式被捕。出乎意料的是,在审讯过程中,温俭表示自己全然不知所涉资金来源,仅是按照吩咐行事,并在最初声称加密货币是挖矿合法所得,后又称是钱志敏赠与其的“爱情礼物”,强调钱志敏只是一位通过珠宝生意和房产投资,以及合法比特币挖矿获得财富的富裕商人。换而言之,她只是一名无辜受害的替罪羊而已。
在此背景下,温俭2023年第一次受审时,对于12项起诉,2项无法判定,10项判定无罪。但由于后续调查出其掌握获有赃款的三个钱包之一,存在一定犯罪意图,因而最终在3月的庭审中,温俭被判洗钱罪,并由于金额过大被列为高危的A类罪犯,将于今年5月被判刑。
黄粱一梦终变铁窗泪,虽然令人唏嘘,温俭的故事,到这里基本就结束了,但钱志敏的故事,却尚未来到终局。
涉案超过的数百亿人民币从何而来?一个平凡的中年妇女怎么会携带巨款来到英国?这一切,又牵涉到了7年前的一起旧案。
案落:7年非吸旧案重提,神秘女人再次潜逃
2014年3月,天津蓝天格锐电子科技有限公司成立,注册资本3000万,经营范围为电子电路设计、开发,电子产品研发等等。公司看似很正常,内地却打着科技的幌子行传销之事,声称有比特币挖矿副业,并以高额收益欺骗投资者。
具体来看,公司以“高收益”、“稳赚不赔”、“三世富贵论”等为诱饵,推出多款所谓“短期投资理财”产品,产品期限从半年到30个月,投资起点从6千到6万,保本年化收益率达到100%-300%。从宣传方式来看,蓝天格锐通过一层一层发展下线的传销方式,在全国迅速成立了超过30家分支机构,其中被骗者又以老年人为主。
2016年8月17日,凌海市公安局组织警力将在该市一处商务宾馆涉嫌进行非法传销活动的20多人带回局里调查,后发现20余人均为蓝天格锐员工,警方意识到情况不简单,在调查中认为该公司行径已涉嫌非法吸收公众存款,当即将时任总经理的吴小龙刑事拘留。后续蓝天格瑞曾以1500万贿赂调查组成员,使吴小龙取保候审,一度引起广泛热议。
2017年,蓝天格锐产品爆雷,公安正式立案。2019年,蓝天格锐公司各级被抓捕50人,法定代表人、总经理等涉案人员均被抓获。直到2022年12月,蓝天格瑞才开始缓慢退赔工作。据披露,该案从超过128000名投资者获取不法金额高达430亿元。
而这家机构的背后实际操盘人,就是钱志敏(又称为“花花”)。但在整个案件中,她几乎都处于隐身状态。从公司注册人来看,她早有预谋,从公司成立伊始就以每月26,948元人民币的薪水和99.7万人民币的一次性奖金聘任了任江涛为法定代表人,同时令其开设火币账号,并声称会摆平一切法律问题。
但事实是这厢任江涛刚被警方调查,那厢钱志敏就第一时间转移了比特币,并开始了作为通缉犯的逃亡之旅。而从逃亡方向来看,钱志敏心思缜密,用此前以NAN YIN为名购买的缅甸护照,然后冒充Zhang yadi获得了另一本圣基茨和尼维斯的护照。就这样,她一路从缅甸逃到了英国,于2017年来到了伦敦。
钱志敏的假护照,来源:网络公开
据悉,钱志敏在个人笔记本中详细记录了其的脱逃计划,先买下私人国家利伯兰,通过修建欧洲最大的佛教寺庙请宗教领袖册封她为转世女神和利伯兰女王,从而获得外交豁免权。骗了数十亿,还要当女神,整个计划可以称得上相当狂妄。
由于并未点亮英文这棵技能树,且身体欠佳,她决定先在伦敦寻找一个可和自己对接的中间人处理赃款。温俭,也就在此时,进入了她的视野。身在异国、无依无靠、缺钱,这几项特质意味着好掌控,而这,或许也是钱志敏选中温俭的原因。不出所料,几乎与任江涛操作一致,温俭也在各种诱惑下无意间成为了同谋。
即使在和温俭的日常相处中,钱志敏也并未放下戒心,两人同游的国家均未有中国引渡权限,且钱志敏从不出现在照片中以防行踪暴露,反侦察意识可称一流。这也不意外,钱志敏每次都可在苗头不对时快速消失,目前仍下落不明,截至最新,钱志敏已被国际刑警组织列入红色通缉令名单。
案件遗留:巨款终落他人手?
纵观整件事情,尽管主谋逍遥法外让人火大,但更被受到关注的,是查获赃款的分配。从来源来看,这笔34亿英镑的巨款无疑是从国人手中骗取,但根据现有情况,却更有可能落入英国之手。
目前,英国皇家检查署已经向高等法院提起了民事追偿程序,以确定是否还有其他合法权利人的存在。若无人主张追讨,该笔金额将被全额没收,一半会被划归英国警方所有,另一半则划归英国内政部。
但跨境追讨本身难度重重,个人申讨可能性微乎其微,而即使中国政府、司法机关和警方涉入,难度也较高,按照以往规律,虎口夺食的跨境成功事件极少。尤其涉及到虚拟货币,本身权属认定、价值评估以及技术手段均有缺失,即使是在国内,也并无较为全面的处理方法。因而尽管赃款分割是国际通行的做法,但本次中英双方就算进入外交协调,国内资产退回也不容乐观。而据财新报道,从目前蓝天格瑞案退赔进度来看,预计国内资金能退回不到5%。
事情唯一的转机,就是抓住钱志敏,该种情况下,中英两方作为FATF成员合作追赃追讨时,中方也可获取更多利益。但从伦理角度,且不论难度,对于英国方面,或许钱志敏不被抓到才有更为简单的处理办法,毕竟高达310亿的资产,即使对于国家而言,也可以称得上一笔巨款。
对于当事人来说,终究是竹篮打水一场空,任如何智多近妖,骗来的大部分钱也最终会转到他人手中,不知拖着残破的身躯仍潜逃在外、大概率不能善终的钱志敏会有何想法,是否会在寻找下一个替罪羊的路上,而被骗的13万人的愤怒又应向谁去发泄。
对于锒铛入狱的温俭而言,命运高举高打,让其在贪婪与欲望中失去了本该有的警惕心,其对钱志敏的巨额财富来源究竟是全尔不知还是宁愿不知,似乎也没有了讨论的必要。
但唏嘘的同时需要警惕的是,不要成为下一个温俭,毕竟暴富的诱惑难以抵挡,但无缘无故的暴富背后,没准是铁链和血光铺成的牢狱之灾。
Living in a luxury house with a monthly rent of up to 10,000 yuan, I either travel around in luxury cars every day or spend money in high-end shopping malls. Hundreds of thousands of jewelry are everywhere, and even buying a house is a few villas. From the description, it is hard to imagine that this is the life of an ordinary British takeaway, but all this really happened to a Chinese woman Wen Jian. I don't need to think about it carefully, but I know that if something goes wrong, there will be a demon. The police naturally targeted her. On April, the British court sentenced Wen Jian, who was a year old, to participate in money laundering. During the investigation, the police seized more than 10,000 bitcoins, the current value of which is about 100 million pounds, which is the largest amount of cryptocurrency ever seized. The total amount involved in this case has reached an appalling $100 million. This case has thus become the largest money laundering case in the world, which is similar to all the stories of getting rich overnight but losing its wings in the air. Wen Jian also met her so-called noble life. If it were not for the investigation by the British police, Wen Jian might still live in the dream of getting rich and gratitude to the benefactor all his life, but it is a pity that in the end. She was imprisoned, but the noble has disappeared, but I don't know that this farce of overbearing president falling in love with me has involved a major case of illegal fund-raising of 100 million yuan in Blue Sky Greer seven years ago in China. This case involving 10,000 bitcoins has also become more confusing. Once the case happened, the noble takeaway suddenly became rich. From the perspective of life experience, Wen Jian was no different from ordinary people, and even once lived a life. Wen Jian, who was born in a poor year, grew up in a worker's family in China, and his family was ordinary. By the time her husband Marcus Balaclav was pregnant, Wen Jian came to England through a spouse visa. The photo source network was open, but the family of three was soon shattered. Soon after her son was born, Wen Jian divorced her husband and became a single mother. Even though life was hard, Wen Jian did not give up. She obtained a bachelor's degree in law and economics in Leeds in 1998. In order to support her family, Wen Jian moved to London. She lived in the basement of a Chinese takeaway shop in Abiwood, southeast London, as the restaurant. The salesman earns about 10,000 RMB a year, which is a drop in the bucket for a single mother in Britain. In order to alleviate the economic pressure, Wen Jian worked part-time and part-time jobs everywhere, perhaps with a relatively high level of knowledge. During this period, she also came into contact with the temporary demand of some cryptocurrencies. The beginning of changing her fate was a recruitment. Wen Jian accidentally saw a recruitment message on WeChat. A woman who claimed to be engaged in the international trade of diamonds and antiques wanted to find a housekeeper. She didn't hesitate for long. Contacted this mysterious recruiter, and this contact also made Wen Jian's future life noble Qian Zhimin appear officially under the pseudonym. They had a good conversation at the five-star Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington. Qian Zhimin soon hired Wen Jian as her full-time escort and housekeeper, with a monthly bonus of 10,000 yuan, including millions, perhaps to show his generosity and trust. On the day of meeting, Qian Zhimin paid Wen Jian 10,000 pounds, so Wen Jian moved from the basement to a mansion in hampstead with a monthly rent of more than 10,000 yuan. Started her counterattack life. Her job is very simple. First, she opened a cryptocurrency account to realize the transaction and put it on record. Second, she spent money for her employer. According to Wen Jian, Qian Zhimin, who had suffered a car accident before, was unable to breathe heavily and her body was very weak. She stayed in bed for more than hours every day and often had nightmares. When she woke up, she used her laptop to play games and shop, and sold bitcoin. Then they packaged it as a jewelry trader's alias and traveled around Europe to change the realized bitcoin into high-grade jewelry. Once spent millions on watches at Van Cleef & Arpels, all kinds of funds were continuously transferred to Qian Zhimin through Wen Jian's account in various forms, and Qian Zhimin also fulfilled his promise. Wen Jian got the dream of a good life. Wen Jian's son was sent to the preparatory school next to the mansion, and the tuition fee per semester reached pounds. Wen Jian also bought a Mercedes-Benz car worth pounds and became a top luxury department store. In just three months, she bought more than 10,000 pounds and about 10,000 yuan of brand-name clothing, jewelry and shoes. In addition to jewelry and daily expenses, real estate is also the top priority of spending money. In Dubai, Wen Jian spent £ 10,000 to buy an apartment. In Italy, she bid for a Venice antique villa with a sea view worth £ 10 million. Then Wen Jian bought a real estate worth £ 10,000 in London. In 2000, she tried to buy a luxury house with a bedroom and a swimming pool in hampstead and a nearby building worth £ 10,000 million. According to the current requirements in Britain, the regulatory authorities asked Wen Jian to provide proof that the funds were legal, which proved that he did not violate the anti-money laundering regulations. However, Wen Jian obviously could not come up with the final transaction and gave up, which also made the police suspect that the case turned into a dream. Ten thousand bitcoins surfaced in the early morning of March, the police got a search warrant and entered Wen Jian and Qian Zhimin's home, seized ten thousand pounds in cash on the spot and obtained a laptop tablet stored in a metal can. The computer had a pink disk and a private key password, and the police found the electronic equipment in the safe again the next day. But at that time, I don't know whether the police didn't detain them because of insufficient evidence, but returned their passports six months later. The source of cash seized by the police in Wen Jianjia was investigated by Phoenix. The police will search their mansion again in recent years, and it was only one month after this search that the dangerous Qian Zhimin disappeared from Britain. After it took a long time to unlock it, the British police finally confirmed it. There are more than 100 bitcoins in electronic equipment, which is one of the largest amount of bitcoins ever seized by British law enforcement agencies. According to the price at that time, the value of these bitcoins was as high as 100 million pounds, about 100 million yuan, and now it is worth more than 100 million pounds, about 100 million yuan. Unexpectedly, Wen Jian was formally arrested in the trial, saying that he had no idea about the source of funds involved, and it was also called a love gift from Qian Zhimin after he initially claimed that the encrypted currency was legal income from mining. It is emphasized that Qian Zhimin is only a wealthy businessman who has made wealth through jewelry business and real estate investment and legal bitcoin mining. In other words, she is just a scapegoat who has been victimized innocently. In this context, Wen Jiannian was not acquitted of one of the charges when she was first tried, but because of the subsequent investigation, she was finally convicted of money laundering in the trial in January and was classified as a high-risk criminal because of the excessive amount. He will be sentenced in this month. Although the story of Wen Jiannian is sad and simple, it is basically here. 比特币今日价格行情网_okx交易所app_永续合约_比特币怎么买卖交易_虚拟币交易所平台
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