Hok Seng Ling, 48, a fixer who served as a "butler" to Zhimin Qian, has handed over £5.6 million to the British Government, according to the supplied material. Qian masterminded a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 128,000 Chinese investors before fleeing to the UK.
Ling admitted money laundering and was jailed for nearly five years. A confiscation order recovered the £5.6 million in cryptocurrency.
A legal battle is ongoing over 61,000 Bitcoin seized from Qian, worth £3.8 billion. Chinese victims are seeking to claim the Bitcoin rather than letting the UK state profit, as the UK continues to tussle with China over Qian's vastly larger fortune.