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Landmark UK bitcoin freezing order had links to £5bn China fraud

Episode raises questions about extent to which the English courts are used for litigation involving dirty money

A case known as the first successful bitcoin freezing injunction awarded in the UK courts was brought by a now-convicted money launderer to retrieve funds from a £5bn fraud in China, the Financial Times can reveal.

UK law firm Devonshires in 2018 boasted that it had won a freezing order at the High Court on behalf of a “private investor” who had been “scammed” by a broker during the sale of £1mn worth of bitcoin.

The law firm in a press release called the case “the first Bitcoin freezing injunction in the UK courts”.

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