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World Service,11 Nov 2025,9 mins

Crypto queen jailed for 11 years over $6 Billion bitcoin scam

World Business Express

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Leanna Byrne gets reactions as a woman known as the Chinese crypto queen has been sentenced to jail in London for laundering billions in stolen bitcoin. Qian Zhimin was convicted of trying to launder more than sixty thousand bitcoins now worth around six and a half billion dollars. In Germany, OpenAI faces a legal setback after a court ruled it infringed copyright by reproducing song lyrics without permission. And Japan's SoftBank cashes out of Nvidia.

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