{"id":50692,"date":"2021-10-05T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50692"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:41:10","slug":"police-arrest-suspects-in-cryptocurrency-owners-kidnapping-523000-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/police-arrest-suspects-in-cryptocurrency-owners-kidnapping-523000-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspects in cryptocurrency owner&#8217;s kidnapping, $523,000 stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaliningrad region&#8217;s Investigative Committee <a href=\\\"https:\/\/kld.sledcom.ru\/news\/item\/1616693\/\\\">opened a criminal case<\/a> into the kidnapping of a cryptocurrency owner.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, on the evening of September 27, two residents of Sovetsk, posing as law enforcement officers, forcibly put a local man into a car. He was taken to the apartment of one of the suspects and, under threats, forced to share passwords to his cryptocurrency wallet and banking apps.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were remanded in custody and charged.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The victim was returned around $70 000 of the stolen funds, the Investigative Committee said.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kidnappers-forced-kaliningrad-resident-to-transfer-523000-in-cryptocurrency-and-dumped-him-in-the-forest\">reported<\/a>, the kidnappers forced the Kaliningrad resident to unlock his iPhone, obtained codes for two-factor authentication on Binance and transferred the funds to their wallets. In total, the attackers stole about $523,000 in USDT.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\\\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\\\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaliningrad region&#8217;s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case into the kidnapping of a cryptocurrency owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50693,"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":[1154,1444],"class_list":["post-50692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692","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=50692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50694,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692\/revisions\/50694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}