{"id":36468,"date":"2021-02-15T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36468"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:29:07","slug":"in-moscow-a-financier-was-robbed-of-nearly-15-million-rubles-during-a-bitcoin-purchase-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-moscow-a-financier-was-robbed-of-nearly-15-million-rubles-during-a-bitcoin-purchase-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"In Moscow, a financier was robbed of nearly 15 million rubles during a bitcoin purchase deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Moscow police have opened a criminal case into the theft of nearly 15 million rubles during a bitcoin purchase deal. This was reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/proisshestviya\/10696683\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/span><\/a>, citing sources in law enforcement.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to the victim financier, he arranged to acquire the cryptocurrency through an acquaintance. The deal was to take place in one of Moscow&#8217;s business centres, where the man had arrived with his wife and child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">After handing over 14.7 million rubles, the man stepped into a corridor, hearing his child cry. Upon returning, he found that the money and the sellers were gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Police detained the suspect, who confessed. Investigations to identify his accomplices are ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in December, armed men in masks <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/masked-assailants-steal-15-million-rubles-from-businessman-during-cryptocurrency-purchase-in-moscow\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">robbed a businessman of 15 million rubles<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> during the signing of a cryptocurrency purchase deal in one of Moscow&#8217;s cafes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow police have opened a criminal case into the theft of nearly 15 million rubles during a bitcoin purchase deal, according to TASS citing law-enforcement sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,59],"class_list":["post-36468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-moscow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36468","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=36468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36470,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36468\/revisions\/36470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}