“Fxxx u. The person who said ‘you’re poor’: Watch me how I grow millions!!!”
The defiant diary entry was scribbled on flowery stationery by Jian Wen, a former fast food worker who would later have £1.7 billion ($2.2 billion) in stolen Bitcoin seized from the home she shared with a shadowy Chinese fugitive.
The note is just one of thousands of pieces of evidence UK prosecutors used to try and prove that Wen intended to make millions from her role in laundering a cryptocurrency stash the likes of which has never before been seized in Britain.
Wen went from living ...
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