Shanghai Prosecutors Indict 5 for Illegal Virtual Currency Foreign Exchange Scheme, Case Exceeds 200 Million Yuan

According to Foresight News, Shanghai's Jing'an District People's Procuratorate recently indicted five people for an illegal cross-border virtual currency foreign exchange scheme involving over 200 million yuan. The court sentenced the main defendants to prison terms ranging from six years to two years and six months, with fines between 1.5 million and 300,000 yuan. Four additional suspects received conditional non-prosecution. The suspects operated Z Company, registered overseas but posing as a private bank with a mobile app to appear legitimate. Without legal authorization for foreign exchange business in China, the group facilitated illegal currency exchanges: customers purchased virtual currencies through intermediaries, deposited them into the company's overseas wallet, and the company converted them to foreign currency and transferred to designated offshore accounts, charging 3% service fees.
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