{"id":30837,"date":"2026-06-01T03:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30837"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:15:33","slug":"british-olympic-sprinter-in-court-over-alleged-drugs-supply-and-cryptocurrency-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2026\/06\/01\/british-olympic-sprinter-in-court-over-alleged-drugs-supply-and-cryptocurrency-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"British Olympic sprinter in court over alleged drugs supply and cryptocurrency scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British sprinter and Olympian has been charged with belonging to an organised crime group running a cryptocurrency scam.<\/p>\n<p>CJ Ujah, who represented Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is also accused of supplying cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>He is among 10 defendants that appeared before\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/essex-5884\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelmsford Crown Court<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on Thursday, charged with running the elaborate scam.<\/p>\n<p>It involved phone calls to multiple victims from people purporting to be police officers and cryptocurrency companies, prosecutors claim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/768x432\/skynews-cj-ujah-team-gb-doping_5512705.jpg?20210914181150\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/384x216\/skynews-cj-ujah-team-gb-doping_5512705.jpg?20210914181150 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/768x432\/skynews-cj-ujah-team-gb-doping_5512705.jpg?20210914181150 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/1600x900\/skynews-cj-ujah-team-gb-doping_5512705.jpg?20210914181150 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/2048x1152\/skynews-cj-ujah-team-gb-doping_5512705.jpg?20210914181150 2048w\" alt=\"Ujah was the fifth Briton to break to 10-second 100 metre barrier. Pic: PA\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Ujah was the fifth Briton to break to 10-second 100 metre barrier. (Image: PA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Victims are reported to have been tricked into sharing important security details before discovering funds stored in their crypto wallets had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims is alleged to have lost more than \u00a3300,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/768x432\/skynews-team-gb-relay_5512712.jpg?20210914181359\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/384x216\/skynews-team-gb-relay_5512712.jpg?20210914181359 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/768x432\/skynews-team-gb-relay_5512712.jpg?20210914181359 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/1600x900\/skynews-team-gb-relay_5512712.jpg?20210914181359 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/2048x1152\/skynews-team-gb-relay_5512712.jpg?20210914181359 2048w\" alt=\"Ujah alongside Adam Gemili, Adam Talbot and Nethaneel Mitchell Blake at the IAAF World Championships in 2017. Pic: PA\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Ujah alongside Adam Gemili, Adam Talbot and Nethaneel Mitchell Blake at the IAAF World Championships in 2017. (Image: PA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crown court indictment stated that Ujah also faces a charge of being concerned in the supply of cannabis on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 defendants are all charged with conspiracy to defraud, the Regional Organised Crime Unit Network said.<\/p>\n<p>None of the defendants were asked to enter a plea at Thursday&#8217;s hearing, and they are next due to appear before Chelmsford Crown Court on 24 July.<\/p>\n<p>Ujah, of Enfield, north London, became only the fifth Briton to break the 10-second barrier for the 100 metres, running 9.96 seconds in 2014.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/768x432\/skynews-team-gb-relay-cj-ujah_5512714.jpg?20210914181555\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/384x216\/skynews-team-gb-relay-cj-ujah_5512714.jpg?20210914181555 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/768x432\/skynews-team-gb-relay-cj-ujah_5512714.jpg?20210914181555 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/1600x900\/skynews-team-gb-relay-cj-ujah_5512714.jpg?20210914181555 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/09\/2048x1152\/skynews-team-gb-relay-cj-ujah_5512714.jpg?20210914181555 2048w\" alt=\"Ujah also raced in the 4x100m final at the 2021 Olympics. Pic: PA\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Ujah also raced in the 4x100m final at the 2021 Olympics. (Image: PA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He won 4x100m relay gold at the World Championships in London in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, he\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/cj-ujah-team-gb-4x100-metre-relay-sprinter-shocked-and-devastated-by-positive-doping-test-12381492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raced in the 4x100m final<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/british-olympic-sprinter-charged-with-belonging-to-organised-crime-group-13548839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">British sprinter and Olympian has been charged with belonging to an organised crime group running a cryptocurrency scam. CJ Ujah, who represented Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is also accused of supplying <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2026\/06\/01\/british-olympic-sprinter-in-court-over-alleged-drugs-supply-and-cryptocurrency-scam\/\" title=\"British Olympic sprinter in court over alleged drugs supply and cryptocurrency scam\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[2384,9868,12568,4686,5967,6034,12567],"class_list":["post-30837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-uk","tag-cannabis","tag-chelmsford-crown-court","tag-crypto-wallets","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-drugs-trade","tag-enfield","tag-team-gb","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30839,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30837\/revisions\/30839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}