Russian programmer targeted in 10.4 BTC crypto kidnapping after luxury-car photos
Russian prosecutors from the Ivanovo area arraigned five men on charges related to a kidnapping to extract 10.4 BTC from a programmer. The defendants, mostly ex-convicts, face up to 15 years on these new charges. Per the Kommersant local media outlet, the victim, who is in his early 20s, landed on the suspects’ radar…
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