{"id":169559,"date":"2025-09-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/fr\/?p=169559"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:00:00","slug":"reine-ponzi-plaide-coupable-londres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/fr\/news\/reine-ponzi-plaide-coupable-londres\/","title":{"rendered":"61 000 BTC saisis \u00e0 Londres : la reine du Ponzi plaide coupable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le 29 septembre 2025, Qian Zhimin, alias Yadi Zhang, surnomm\u00e9e dans la presse la \u00ab reine du Ponzi \u00bb, a reconnu sa culpabilit\u00e9 devant la Southwark Crown Court de Londres. Entre 2014 et 2017, cette femme d\u2019affaires aujourd\u2019hui quadrag\u00e9naire aurait arnaqu\u00e9 plus de 120 000 \u00e9pargnants chinois. Elle aurait convertit leurs \u00e9conomies en bitcoin. Montant estim\u00e9 : pr\u00e8s de 7 milliards de dollars.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Une fraude colossale : 120 000 victimes et 7 milliards de dollars blanchis<\/strong><\/h2><span class=\"replacer\"><\/span><p>Derri\u00e8re son allure de femme d\u2019affaires respectable, Qian orchestrai\u00adt un <strong>syst\u00e8me pyramidal d\u2019une ampleur in\u00e9dite<\/strong> en Chine. Les offres affichaient des taux de rendement hors du commun, l\u2019argumentaire jouait sur la confiance et la peur de rater l\u2019occasion. S\u00e9duits par ce discours, ce sont <strong>128 000 investisseurs chinois<\/strong> qui se sont laiss\u00e9s prendre au pi\u00e8ge, selon les chiffres produits au tribunal.<\/p><p>Les fonds extorqu\u00e9s \u00e9taient ensuite rapidement convertis en bitcoin pour brouiller les pistes. D\u00e8s 2017, <strong>Qian s\u2019est install\u00e9e \u00e0 Londres<\/strong>, d\u2019o\u00f9 elle aurait orchestr\u00e9 le transfert et le blanchiment de ses avoirs num\u00e9riques.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>61 000 BTC saisis : la plus grande affaire crypto au Royaume-Uni<\/strong><\/h2><span class=\"replacer\"><\/span><p>En 2018, la Metropolitan Police a mis la main sur des portefeuilles num\u00e9riques li\u00e9s \u00e0 Qian. Au total, pus de <strong>61 000 bitcoins<\/strong> ont \u00e9t\u00e9 saisis. L\u2019\u00e9quivalent aujourd\u2019hui de <strong>7 milliards de dollars<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Il s\u2019agit de la <strong>plus grande saisie de crypto-monnaies jamais r\u00e9alis\u00e9e<\/strong> au Royaume-Uni. C\u2019est \u00e9galement l\u2019une des plus importantes au monde. Les enqu\u00eateurs ont retrac\u00e9 les flux en coop\u00e9ration avec un restaurateur chinois bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres, qui avait involontairement servi de relais \u00e0 Qian.<\/p><p>Cette saisie record a marqu\u00e9 un tournant pour la police britannique. Elle a confirm\u00e9 que les crypto-actifs pouvaient \u00e0 la fois servir de refuge aux criminels et constituer un outil d\u2019enqu\u00eate pr\u00e9cieux gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la transparence des blockchains publiques.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Metropolitan Police says it recovered 61,000 bitcoin worth more than \u00a35bn ($6.7bn) in current prices.<br><br>Zhimin Qian, pleaded guilty on Monday at Southwark Crown Court of illegally acquiring and possessing the cryptocurrency.<br><br>They call her &quot;The goddess of wealth&quot;\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/og4JkGzwE8\">pic.twitter.com\/og4JkGzwE8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; iShallCook (@WeWillCookLFG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeWillCookLFG\/status\/1972959055464591659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Proc\u00e8s \u00e0 Londres : un tournant judiciaire pour la r\u00e9gulation crypto<\/strong><\/h2><span class=\"replacer\"><\/span><p>Le 29 septembre 2025, apr\u00e8s des ann\u00e9es d\u2019enqu\u00eate, Qian a <strong>admis plusieurs charges de blanchiment d\u2019argent et de possession de biens criminels<\/strong>. La date de sa condamnation sera fix\u00e9e dans les prochains mois. Au vu de l\u2019ampleur des sommes en jeu, on peut s\u2019attendre \u00e0 une peine particuli\u00e8rement lourde compte.<\/p><p>Pour les <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk\/courts\/southwark-crown-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">procureurs<\/a>, cette affaire d\u00e9montre \u00ab la capacit\u00e9 des criminels \u00e0 <strong>exploiter les crypto-actifs<\/strong> pour d\u00e9placer des montants d\u2019une ampleur in\u00e9dite \u00bb. L\u2019audience rappelle aussi combien ces enqu\u00eates d\u00e9passent les fronti\u00e8res. N\u00e9e en Chine, la fraude a continu\u00e9 son chemin jusqu\u2019au Royaume-Uni, ce qui a oblig\u00e9 les autorit\u00e9s des deux pays \u00e0 croiser leurs dossiers pour reconstituer le puzzle.<\/p><p>Pour les juristes comme pour les r\u00e9gulateurs, ce proc\u00e8s pourrait faire date. En effet, l\u2019ampleur des sommes et la visibilit\u00e9 m\u00e9diatique renforcent l\u2019id\u00e9e qu\u2019un <strong>encadrement plus strict des plateformes <\/strong>et des flux en crypto <strong>est important<\/strong>. Les autorit\u00e9s y voient un exemple frappant de ce qui peut se produire en l\u2019absence de garde-fous efficaces.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quelles implications pour le march\u00e9 et les investisseurs ?<\/strong><\/h2><span class=\"replacer\"><\/span><p>Dix ans apr\u00e8s les premiers grands Ponzi crypto, les m\u00eames recettes continuent de <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/fr\/news\/police-demande-seed-phrase-perd-28-millions\/\">pi\u00e9ger les particuliers<\/a>. Le manque d\u2019\u00e9ducation financi\u00e8re reste criant, m\u00eame dans un secteur devenu mondial et hyperconnect\u00e9.<\/p><p>Pour le march\u00e9, une question demeure : <strong>que deviendront les bitcoins saisis<\/strong> ? Si l\u2019\u00c9tat britannique d\u00e9cide de liquider progressivement tout ou une partie des 61 000 BTC, l\u2019impact sur la liquidit\u00e9 et sur les prix pourrait \u00eatre significatif. \u00c0 titre de comparaison, les ventes de bitcoins confisqu\u00e9s lors de l\u2019affaire Silk Road avaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 exerc\u00e9 une pression temporaire sur le march\u00e9.<\/p><p>Au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019effet imm\u00e9diat, ce proc\u00e8s rappelle aux investisseurs que <strong>les risques d\u2019arnaques ne sont pas derri\u00e8re nous<\/strong>. Les cadres r\u00e9glementaires se renforcent en Europe, aux \u00c9tats-Unis ou en Asie. Mais l\u2019affaire Qian montre que les fraudes d\u2019ampleur continuent de peser sur la r\u00e9putation globale du secteur.<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"><p>Pour aller plus loin sur le sujet :<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/fr\/news\/coinbase-hacke-le-pirate-revend-400-m-de-donnees-sensibles\/\">Coinbase hack\u00e9 : le pirate revend 400 M$ de donn\u00e9es sensibles<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/fr\/news\/zachxbt-vol-bitcoin-91-millions\/\">ZachXBT d\u00e9voile un nouveau vol de Bitcoin \u00e0 91 millions $<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/fr\/news\/police-demande-seed-phrase-perd-28-millions\/\">La police lui demande sa seed phrase : il perd 2,8 millions de dollars en Bitcoin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le 29 septembre 2025, Qian Zhimin, alias Yadi Zhang, surnomm\u00e9e dans la presse la \u00ab reine du Ponzi \u00bb, a reconnu sa culpabilit\u00e9 devant la Southwark Crown Court de Londres. Entre 2014 et 2017, cette femme d\u2019affaires aujourd\u2019hui quadrag\u00e9naire aurait arnaqu\u00e9 plus de 120 000 \u00e9pargnants chinois. Elle aurait convertit leurs \u00e9conomies en bitcoin. Montant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":169560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,1],"tags":[],"editors":[2551],"sponsored_companies":[],"class_list":["post-169559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin-news","category-blockchain-news","category-news","editors-julien-leroy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>61 000 BTC saisis \u00e0 Londres : la reine du Ponzi plaide coupable<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Entre 2014 et 2017, cette femme d\u2019affaires a arnaqu\u00e9 plus de 120 000 \u00e9pargnants chinois pour 7 milliards de dollars.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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