Chinese spa worker pleads not guilty to ‘murder for hire’ plot in New York


Prosecutors allege the 42-year-old woman offered cryptocurrency, cash and sex for killing of her lover’s wife and daughter but website was a scam. — SCMP

A Chinese national appeared in a New York court on Monday charged with offering cryptocurrency, cash and sexual favours in an alleged plot to kill her lover’s wife and daughter – only to discover that the “murder for hire” website was a scam.

Spa worker Yue Zhou, 42, was arrested last month in Virginia and transferred to New York on Wednesday after allegedly attempting to arrange the murders on the dark web. She pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court and did not request bail.

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