Zhimin Qian dreamt that the Dalai Lama would anoint her a reincarnated goddess and that she go on to become the Queen of Liberland, an unrecognised micronation on the Danube, where she would build the biggest Buddhist temple in Europe.
A fugitive from the Beijing authorities, Qian had the funds to believe such mad dreams could become reality: huge sums of bitcoin from a ￡5bn investment scam she allegedly ran in China, defrauding more than 128,000 people.
The 45-year-old Qian was at the heart of a London money laundering trial that concluded this week with the conviction of her “carer and assistant” Jian Wen.
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