{"id":11798,"date":"2024-03-20T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ukrainian-police-halt-cryptocurrency-funded-border-escape\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:13:46","slug":"ukrainian-police-halt-cryptocurrency-funded-border-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ukrainian-police-halt-cryptocurrency-funded-border-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Police Halt Cryptocurrency-Funded Border Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the village of Hradenytsi, Odesa region, police intercepted two vehicles carrying a group of men attempting to illegally cross the border into Moldova. This was reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/od.npu.gov.ua\/news\/braly-hroshi-u-kryptovaliuti-ta-vydavaly-rybalski-kostiumy-na-odeshchyni-politsiia-vykryla-orhanizatoriv-nelehalnoho-kanalu-peretynu-kordonu\">press service of the department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement, the transportation was organized by a resident of Odesa and a Donbas native previously convicted of theft and robbery. This time, they assembled a group of eight people, intending to drop them off in a Moldovan village with instructions for further travel.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of their services was $5300 per person, with $1000 required to be transferred to a cryptocurrency wallet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com\/dZUPoAcXA5eduF5F0EpoM0Fm9vRv-4J7FSxNCVxJZe1B48H54mbOb_zHVClD-ZKOGYxR18j9lbH_r0FASX6eiEHdfl7wxJLok2QFZwmwLXvZOGqDQWc0GUsU8GSH0bqEmDsMdyi-0FGa6Y0QzosyTI0\" alt=\"Police halt cryptocurrency-funded escape from Ukraine\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: National Police of Ukraine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During searches, authorities seized vehicles and cash amounting to $17,400 and \u20ac3250.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers have been charged and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative protocols have been drawn up against the passengers. They face up to nine years in prison for attempting illegal border crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukrainian-conscripts-attempt-to-bribe-their-way-out-with-cryptocurrency\">reported<\/a> that in Ukraine, a minibus driver offered to transport conscription-age men to Moldova for a cryptocurrency fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the village of Hradenytsi, Odesa region, police intercepted two vehicles carrying a group of men attempting to illegally cross the border into Moldova. This was reported by the press service of the department. According to law enforcement, the transportation was organized by a resident of Odesa and a Donbas native previously convicted of theft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11797,"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":[137,1154,16],"class_list":["post-11798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798","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=11798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}