Progress in the Blue Sky Gerui over 40 billion yuan illegal fundraising case: prosecutors apply to confiscate more than 61,800 bitcoins and other assets, court has accepted the case.

PANews October 14 news, according to The Paper, the Tianjin Second Intermediate People's Court issued an announcement stating that on September 28 it filed and accepted a case in which the Tianjin People's Procuratorate Second Branch applied for the confiscation of the illegal gains of criminal suspect Qian Zhimin. The property for which the procuratorial authority applied for confiscation includes 61,896.41552945 bitcoins, as well as other virtual currencies, cash, jewelry, and financial assets.

The Tianjin Second Intermediate People's Court stated that upon review it found that there is evidence proving that Qian Zhimin committed the crime of fund-raising fraud, that the principal place of the crime is Hedong District, Tianjin, and that the court has jurisdiction. In accordance with the provisions of Article 299 of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, it filed and accepted the case.