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200 don't know how to make next months mortgage payment. 🤣

Layoffs maybe but that's a ton of work for basically a decent wage 20 years ago. We are going back to victorian times.

The constant notifications and emails from temu made me close the account after a week, way worse than aliexpress. Got a dent removal kit for £5 instead of £25 as a new user though.

"Over 200 applicants" 😂

Sounds like bitcoin was designed for the scammer at heart its part of its dna. Nice to see satoshi had the foresight for it's intended purpose.

You don't steal that kind of money with no come back. I would think she has more to worry about than being locked up for a few years, 2 billion is not chump change. I'm struggling to workout why that kind of money does not raise a flag in crypto world, like it would in fiat land, other than when actually trying to spend it.

Not surprising, work does not pay before you even get onto the office politics, yes men managers fear of job loss and intimidation. Thankfully my online sales have been good past few months. Hard work constantly searching for goods though, been making £500 to £800 a week profit so not too bad past few weeks decent income now rates are up too on my savings pot. Maybe if i got up before 10:30 i would do better.

DNGAF relationships are best. Why have kids in a much more violent unsafe world. Stab victim or cannon fodder to protect the 0.1% is the likely outcome.

Lol No keys no daylight again for her or anyone like her 30 plus year sentence. Not much use when you actually want to convert it to somthing with no paper trail. Lets not forget how she got caught.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/specialist-cps-team-involved-uks-largest-bitcoin-seizure An ex-takeaway worker has been convicted (Wednesday 20 March 2024) of laundering the proceeds which saw her rise from living above a Chinese restaurant to residing in a multi-million pound house in an affluent part of North London. Jian Wen Scam you long time, 42, was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of an offence relating to money laundering. A Metropolitan Police investigation resulted in the CPS seizure of Bitcoin wallets from Wen, with an initial estimated value in excess of £2 billion. Prosecutors told the court the sheer scale of the seized Bitcoin, the lack of any legitimate evidence for how it was acquired and its connection to a massive investment fraud in China, all indicated that it was criminal property. The original fraud and acquisition of the Bitcoin was undertaken by another suspect who is yet to be arrested and brought before the court. Wen was involved in converting significant amounts of Bitcoin into cash and other expensive assets, on behalf of the international fraudster. Prior to working for her “employer”, Wen lived a modest lifestyle in Leeds, with declared earnings in 2015 and 2016 of just £12,800 and £5,979. Her fortune changed significantly when she met the fellow Chinese national who was the source of the Bitcoin. In 2017, they moved into a six-bedroom property in London, at a rental cost of over £17,000 each month. The two women presented themselves as successfully operating an international jewellery business, with Wen operating as the English-speaking and apparently legitimate front person for her employer. Wen was later joined by her young son, who moved from China to attend a private school in the UK, benefitting from her newly affluent lifestyle. Wen later stated that she had been gifted 3,000 Bitcoin, then valued at approximately £15 million, by her employer. Between Autumn 2017 and late 2018, Wen made efforts to purchase properties in London, valued at £4.5 million, £23.5 million, and £12.5 million. She was hampered by difficulties converting sufficient Bitcoin into Sterling and by “know your customer” questions asked of her under anti-money laundering regulations. When challenged about the source of the proposed funding for the property purchases, Wen claimed it came from legitimate sources including Bitcoin mining, a claim that was ultimately not accepted by those she instructed to assist with the sale. Between 2017 and 2019, Wen also travelled abroad extensively, throughout Europe and elsewhere, largely enabling the conversion of large amounts of Bitcoin into more tangible assets. A receipt addressed to Wen, for example, showed jewellery worth tens of thousands of pounds had been purchased in Zurich. In 2019, she travelled to Dubai, arranging to view a number of properties for sale. In October and November of that year, she went on to purchase two properties in Dubai. Their value in total amounted to more than £500,000. Throughout the course of the investigation and subsequent trial, Wen denied knowing that any of the Bitcoin was derived from criminality and had no suspicions about its scale. The CPS Proceeds of Crime Division used its civil powers to obtain a Property Freezing Order from the High Court against Wen whilst it undertakes a non-conviction-based civil recovery investigation. That investigation could result in the forfeiture of the seized Bitcoin regardless of whether Wen or the other suspect are convicted. Andrew Penhale, Chief Crown Prosecutor, said: “Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are increasingly being used by organised criminals to disguise and transfer assets, so that fraudsters may enjoy the benefits of their criminal conduct. This case, involving the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the UK, illustrates the scale of criminal proceeds available to those fraudsters. “Although the original fraudster remains at large, the Metropolitan Police and CPS have successfully secured a money laundering conviction against Jian Wen, an individual employed to launder criminal proceeds. The CPS will now work to ensure, through criminal confiscation and civil proceedings, that the criminal assets remain beyond the fraudsters’ reach. “The CPS is committed to working closely with law enforcement and investigatory authorities, to bring to justice individuals and companies who engage in laundering criminal proceeds through cryptocurrency.” Adrian Foster, Chief Crown Prosecutor said: “The CPS has used the full range of our criminal and non-conviction based civil asset recovery powers, to firstly freeze and then look to seize the very large quantity of cryptocurrency and other assets, used by Wen and her “employer” to fund their extravagant lifestyle. “We have worked with the Police to obtain freezing orders preserving all the seized cryptocurrency, and a CPS-led civil recovery investigation is running to establish that the frozen cryptocurrency is criminal property and to seek its forfeiture.” Detective Chief Superintendent Jason Prins, Metropolitan Police, whose team led the investigation, said: “Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of highly skilled detectives in the Met, we have been able to disrupt a sophisticated economic crime operation – the sheer scale of which demonstrates how international criminals seek to exploit cryptocurrency online. “Our team have helped secure justice today and have persevered to trace this Bitcoin and identify the criminality it was linked to. “Today’s verdict and lengthy five-year investigation demonstrates that we’ll leave no stone unturned in our pursuit to catch criminals who look to enjoy the proceeds of illicit funds – no matter how complex the case.”

Average advertised salaries rose +0.96% monthly to £37,577, and up +2.28% on an annual basis, but this is not necessarily good news for candidates because, according to Adzuna, this may point to a lack of entry-level or junior positions available, with companies hiring only for more senior roles. Lol 37k is a junior salary. Its awful down south.

The size i agree with parking is difficult with so many wide cars about, but the weight is Bs, so many buses trucks and vans about a few hundred kg more does not make much difference to roads.

Who would waste time and energy trying to protect scum island that is the UK Gen z fight for your HMO and Zero hours job. 🤣 Lol best learn Ruskie at least their women look nice.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/25568397/ev-drivers-charged-more-parking-unfair/ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Time for heavy cars to pay the price. £3000 a year is about right.

The crazy rich asians are coming for aviation, although 60% of it is american or european parts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919

Torque wrench's cost $5 bucks, that would hurt boeing's profit margin are you mad !!. Some thread lock would have done the trick or a few circlips. This is not boeing's first rodeo mind, aloha flight 243 was similar. Aloha passengers ! bye bye roof, it flew off and the plane turned into a sight seeing bus. Boeing will need a denzil crash course

Golden opportunity to buy a poorly built big pile of british chite at the top of the market. Get your 40 year 4.5% concrete debt boots on.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/10-year-old-boeing-787s-scrapped/index.html https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a32885300/kc-46a-garbage/ The debris has included “aluminum shavings,” hand tools, loose nuts, “rubbish,” and other items that inspectors worried could damage electrical wiring, leading to system failures in flight. The problem is mirrored on Boeing’s civilian aircraft assembly lines, where tools, rags, titanium shavings, metal nuts, tubes of sealant, a string of lights, and even a ladder were found left behind in 737 MAX aircraft. 🤣🤣🤣 ✈️

For those directly affected, compensation should include at least reimbursement of what was "lost" at todays prices plus interest. Compared to what was blown on Covid and PPE this is small change. Its all tax payer money after all, not real money. The 2 tier class system is alive and well though. Many similarities.

Interesting similarities with this scandal and the the state of housing affordability in this chithole they call the uk. Subpostmasters could be non home owning sub 45y olds vs the establishment with all the power to manipulate and lie like breathing.

Lol with a top speed of 112mph. I very much doubt that. Nice for traffic light grand prix before you hit a speed camera or hump though.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12934321/Boeing-asked-FAA-EXEMPT-new-model-killer-737-Max-jet-safety-inspection-lead-engine-malfunction-just-weeks-Alaska-jet-suffered-mid-air-fuselage-blow-out.html#article-12934321 Profit over people always. Boeing franken planes strike again the Flying death traps. If its boeing i'm not going.

Airmiles. i assume you mean avios ? How is it possible to get £416 in avios points, from a flight to the US ? Are you flying 1st everywhere. Link avios to nectar then you can convert them to cash on ebay and buy whatever you like.

Ba's fleet is ancient crap flying on fumes with leather seats, they can keep their loyalty cards. I disagree brits are either drunken lout or posh snob abroad. Europes budget supermarkets stock better food than our homegrown luxury range. Prague lidl german aldi sold far better fresh items. Sadly britain has a taste for cheap food and expensive homes, and a smoke and mirrors economy.

Lol big deal. 1 million now is frankley nothing playmoney That will not touch the sides where i am for a detached home 50% more plus. The sooner the dumb brits wake up and realise they are poor with zero power the quicker an alternative can exist. Fecking people shopping in m&s for factory made chite parading as upper class, yule logs with gold leaf, and butter "enriched" pies and chite ohh please.