Malaysian national Hok Seng Ling, who acted as a "butler" to fraudster Zhimin Qian, has paid back £5.6 million following his conviction for money laundering. The payment concludes Ling's liability in the matter.
A separate legal dispute remains unresolved over the ownership of 61,000 Bitcoin confiscated during the investigation, a haul valued at £3.8 billion. Chinese victims are pushing to reclaim the assets, and the battle over the confiscated Bitcoin continues.