{"id":11328,"date":"2024-03-05T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kaliningrad-court-sentences-crypto-investors-kidnappers\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:13:33","slug":"kaliningrad-court-sentences-crypto-investors-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kaliningrad-court-sentences-crypto-investors-kidnappers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaliningrad Court Sentences Crypto Investor&#8217;s Kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two residents of the Kaliningrad region have been found guilty of kidnapping, extortion, car theft, robbery, and attempted murder, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/su_skr39\/2115\">statement<\/a> by the local Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"su_skr39\/2116\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, they kidnapped a Kaliningrad resident who had substantial cryptocurrency savings. They held him for nearly a day in an undisclosed location, where they coerced him into transferring digital assets worth 39.8 million rubles to their wallets under threat.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, the victim was beaten, drugged, and abandoned in a forest. Despite this, he survived and reported the incident to the police, leading to the suspects&#8217; arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reviewing the case, the court sentenced one of the individuals to 15 years and three months, and the other to 12.5 years in a high-security prison.<\/p>\n<p>In February, ForkLog reported that police in Phuket province <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/five-russians-in-thailand-suspected-of-extorting-900000-in-cryptocurrency\">issued arrest warrants for five Russians<\/a> suspected of kidnapping a couple to extort cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two residents of the Kaliningrad region have been found guilty of kidnapping, extortion, car theft, robbery, and attempted murder, according to a statement by the local Investigative Committee. In September 2021, they kidnapped a Kaliningrad resident who had substantial cryptocurrency savings. They held him for nearly a day in an undisclosed location, where they coerced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154,27],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"41","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}