Global Eye — Season 1, Episode 12: 24/11/2025: Palau’s Role in the World’s Largest Bitcoin Seizure

Episode synopsis

In this week’s episode, BBC Eye tells the incredible story of the Chinese woman behind behind the scam that led to the world's biggest bitcoin seizure and Shawn Yuan reports from the Pacific Island Nation of Palau.

About Global Eye

Award-winning investigations - revealing secrets, rooting out injustice, and exposing crime, corruption, and abuse. The biggest stories from BBC correspondents all over the world.

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