{"id":40375,"date":"2021-04-08T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40375"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:51:59","slug":"in-italy-authorities-foiled-a-bitcoin-paid-plot-to-attack-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-italy-authorities-foiled-a-bitcoin-paid-plot-to-attack-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"In Italy, authorities foiled a Bitcoin-paid plot to attack a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milan police arrested a 40-year-old local resident who commissioned a brutal attack on his former girlfriend for \u20ac10,000 in bitcoins. Local media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agi.it\/cronaca\/news\/2021-04-07\/dark-web-sicario-12074331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u044e\u0442<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, an IT specialist at a major corporation, was deeply distressed by the breakup from November 2018 to July 2020. After the woman again rejected his gifts and declined a meeting, the Italian decided to take revenge.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, he hired someone on the dark web who, under the guise of a robbery, would attack the victim and literally &#8216;break her back&#8217; so she would be left paralysed. Subsequently, the killer was to ambush the woman on the street and pour acid on her face.<\/p>\n<p>For the service, the offender paid an advance in bitcoins. In total, the killer was to receive almost \u20ac10,000 ($11,900).<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began in February after Interpol colleagues alerted them to suspicious communications on the dark web.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is currently under house arrest. He is charged with attempted aggravated assault and stalking.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, US authorities arrested a 37-year-old Wisconsin resident <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/american-woman-charged-in-murder-for-hire-plot-involving-bitcoins\">on charges of attempting to organise a contract killing<\/a>. According to media reports, she paid the killer $5,633 in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Milan arrested a 40-year-old local resident who commissioned a brutal attack on his former girlfriend for \u20ac10,000 in bitcoins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40376,"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":[1154,477,1603],"class_list":["post-40375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-darknet","tag-italy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375","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=40375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40377,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375\/revisions\/40377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}