{"id":43320,"date":"2021-05-27T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43320"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:06:24","slug":"media-reports-fsb-detains-suspects-in-extortion-of-10-million-rubles-from-a-cryptocurrency-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-reports-fsb-detains-suspects-in-extortion-of-10-million-rubles-from-a-cryptocurrency-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Media reports: FSB detains suspects in extortion of 10 million rubles from a cryptocurrency businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a St. Petersburg airport, law enforcement officers detained a suspect who, posing as an FSB officer, attempted to defraud a cryptocurrency entrepreneur. The report comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2021\/05\/27\/69937166\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00ab\u0424\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0430\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, in April the entrepreneur from St. Petersburg underwent searches. He contacted a certain Alexander Nezhelsky, who presented himself as an FSB colonel and promised to assist in solving his problems for 10 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Later the entrepreneur contacted the FSB in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region, stating that the amount was inflated.<\/p>\n<p>On May 26, Alexander Nezhelsky was detained at the airport. He pointed to his accomplice \u2013 a senior investigator in the Criminal Investigation Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to the detainee&#8217;s testimony, the search conducted on the entrepreneur was a sham, and they decided to profit from it. Nezhelsky also said that he is a fighter with a private military company.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened against both suspects for fraud on a particularly large scale.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, a court sentenced two former FSB investigators Sergei Belousov and Alexey Kolbov to nine and twelve years in a strict-regime penal colony for <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/former-fsb-officers-sentenced-to-9-and-12-years-in-prison-for-extorting-a-bribe-in-bitcoin\">extortion of a large bribe paid in cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices, and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a St. Petersburg airport, law enforcement detained a suspect who, posing as an FSB officer, attempted to defraud a cryptocurrency entrepreneur. The report comes from Fontanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43321,"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":[1154,27],"class_list":["post-43320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43320","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=43320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43322,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43320\/revisions\/43322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}