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She was sitting on a pile of Bitcoin that British police say was worth more $7 billion, money that came from scamming thousands of Chinese pensioners. But on Tuesday, Qian Zhimin was handed a prison sentence of 11 years and eight months for money laundering. Judge Sally-Ann Hales told Qian that she was “the architect of this offending from its inception to its conclusion. … Your motive was one of pure greed.” The World’s Matthew Bell reports.