The properties formed part of a £12 million settlement made with the National Crime Agency from what it suspects to be the proceeds of crime.
Two blocks of student housing in Coventry and funds in several bank accounts were also forfeited by Mr Wenjun Tian and Ms Jiangbo Hao in response to the separate civil recovery and frozen funds investigations.
According to the NCA, they suspect the assets were obtained from large-scale financial frauds in China, and the laundering of the proceeds from the frauds in overseas jurisdictions including the UK and Jersey.
Mr Tian and Ms Hao were unable to provide the NCA with a reasonable explanation for the source of the funds used to buy the properties.
They also failed to explain the source of the “substantial” sums of money in their bank accounts.
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The pair have denied engaging in criminal activity and there has been no High Court finding related to this. The Consent Order does not represent a criminal finding of guilt.
Rob Burgess, Head of Asset Denial at the NCA, said: “The NCA uses both civil and criminal powers to investigate the provenance of assets in the UK where they are believed to have been acquired with the proceeds of crime, including when the suspected criminality was committed overseas.
“This case involved co-operation with law enforcement colleagues in Jersey and the authorities in China.”
