UK authorities are trying to recover 16.2 million pounds (US$21.7 million) from a Malaysian fixer at the centre of a massive Bitcoin scam, a court was told Tuesday (Sep 30). Hok Seng Ling, 47, admitted to money laundering at London's Southwark Crown Court. Speaking through an interpreter, he just said the word "guilty". His plea came a day after mastermind Zhimin Qian, a Chinese businesswoman also known as Yadi Zhang, admitted a leading role in the multi-billion pound fraudulent Bitcoin scheme. Ling, who had been living in Derbyshire in central England, had dealt in cryptocurrency on behalf of Qian with ... (full story)