Detective Constable Joe Ryan arrived at a red-brick manor house in Hampstead, north London, early on the morning of October 31 2018. Ryan, a veteran money-laundering investigator with the Metropolitan Police, had obtained a warrant to search the property as part of an investigation into the activities of a 36-year-old woman named Jian Wen. A China-born British citizen, Wen had tried to buy a multimillion-pound property using bitcoin whose origin she couldn’t prove.
2018年10月31日清晨,偵探警員喬•瑞恩(Joe Ryan)抵達位於倫敦北部漢普斯特德的一座紅磚莊園。瑞恩是倫敦警察廳(Metropolitan Police)的一名資深洗錢調查員,他已經獲得了對該房產的搜查令,這是對一位名叫文簡(Jian Wen,音譯)的36歲女性活動的調查的一部分。文簡是在中國出生的英國公民,她曾試圖用比特幣購買一套價值數百萬英鎊的房產,但她無法證明比特幣的來源。