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

More than 100,000 Chinese investors poured money into her company, which falsely claimed to develop cutting-edge health products and mine cryptocurrency.

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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Tue 11 Nov 202515:50GMT
BBC World Service

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