{"id":51872,"date":"2021-10-27T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51872"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:02:16","slug":"ukraine-detains-suspect-over-abduction-of-cryptocurrency-owner-and-2-5-million-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ukraine-detains-suspect-over-abduction-of-cryptocurrency-owner-and-2-5-million-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine detains suspect over abduction of cryptocurrency owner and $2.5 million theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian law enforcement detained at Boryspil airport one of the suspects in the kidnapping of a person and extortion of cryptocurrency from them. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.gp.gov.ua\/ua\/news?_m=publications&#038;_c=view&#038;_t=rec&#038;id=306789\\\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, in April 2021 two suspects forcibly placed the victim in a car and drove him to a village in the Kyiv region. The criminals held him in a rented house and, under threats, gained access to the victim&#8217;s cryptocurrency wallets with assets worth $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was later taken to a forest in Poltava region, where belongings and money were seized.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were put on the wanted list. One was detained after returning from abroad; the whereabouts of the second are being established.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the investigation, accounts that the suspects had gained access to were blocked. Half of the funds were recovered, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that in Kaliningrad, criminals forced a local resident to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kidnappers-forced-kaliningrad-resident-to-transfer-523000-in-cryptocurrency-and-dumped-him-in-the-forest\">transfer cryptocurrency worth $523 000<\/a> and threw him into a forest. The suspects <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/police-arrest-suspects-in-cryptocurrency-owners-kidnapping-523000-stolen\">were arrested<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian law enforcement detained at Boryspil airport one of the suspects in the kidnapping of a person and extortion of cryptocurrency from them, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51873,"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":[1154,1444,16],"class_list":["post-51872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement","tag-ukraine"],"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\/51872","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=51872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51874,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51872\/revisions\/51874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}