{"id":144245,"date":"2026-01-15T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144245"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:51:31","slug":"how-chinese-corruption-busters-are-tracking-down-bribes-paid-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144245","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese corruption busters are tracking down bribes paid in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing has revealed how its graft busters are investigating bribes paid in hard-to-trace cryptocurrencies by tracking the ways in which corrupt officials have been spending the proceeds.<br \/>\nA documentary shown on state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday highlighted the case of Yao Qian, the former director of the digital currency institute at the People\u2019s Bank of China.<br \/>\nInvestigators became suspicious when Yao bought a villa in Beijing for more than 20 million yuan (around US$2.9 million) under the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3340038\/how-chinese-corruption-busters-are-tracking-down-bribes-paid-cryptocurrency?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing has revealed how its graft busters are investigating bribes paid in hard-to-trace cryptocurrencies by tracking the ways in which corrupt officials have been&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}