The crypto -millionaire bit his finger to the kidnapper and was able to escape

The Australian businessman was attacked near his house in Tallinn, but he managed to escape. He escaped to the loss of tooth, and a year later, through the court, he demands to compensate him for the security of the caught criminals.

Cryptomillarder Tim Hit bitten part of the finger at the attacker, fighting off the attempt to abduct near his apartment in Tallinn. According to Sydney Morning Herald, this happened in the summer of 2024, and now the hit has been seeking € 2.7 million from the kidnapper, which he has since spent on guard.

The hit was born in Australia, but lives in Estonia. He founded the company Yolo Group and invested in more than 100 startups, primarily in the field of Fintech, Blockchain and online gambling. The hit takes 66th place in the list of the richest people in Australia: according to the version of the Australian Financial Review, his fortune is estimated at 2.46 billion Australian dollars ($ 1.6 billion).

As it became known in court, the group of at least seven people carefully planned the abduction. They entered Estonia through fake Georgian passports and monitored the movements of the hit for several months, installing a GPS tracker on his car. The attackers were going to transfer the hit to the sauna leased nearby and force the cryptocurrency to transfer, for which, presumably, they were hired by a hacker.

A few days before the attack, the attackers acquired a construction uniform, cable screeds, tape and other materials in local economic stores, later dressed in a team of Malyarov, who allegedly worked next to the Hit’s House.

Two abductors attacked him on the stairwell when he returned home on the evening of July 29. One of them, the former Greco-Roman-style fighter and boxer, 49-year-old Azerbaijani citizen Allahverdi Allahverdiev closed his mouth to his hand to silence, but he bit the attacker of the index finger, part of which was then found on the street 100 meters from the incident. The attackers abandoned the van nearby, but fake documents were found in it.

The hit escaped the abduction, but resistant to the tooth. A few weeks later, the businessman received anonymous messages via Telegram demanding to translate 30 bitcoins and photographs taken near his apartment. “Are you going to cooperate?” – said in the message. The hit did not answer, no one else contacted him.

Since then, the Australian changed housing, spent more than € 2.7 million per private security. Two attackers, Allahverdiev and Georgian citizen Ilgar Mamedov, were caught on the Lithuanian border shortly after the incident. The lawyers of the hit are obtaining from them in court reimbursement of these expenses.

Allahverdiev said that for the abduction he was promised € 100 thousand. The police continue to search for two more attackers, including the alleged organizer Najaf Najafli. The identities of the three others are unknown.

A wave of “cryptocurrency” abductions over the past year raised the demand for bodyguards and other security services. Attackers are increasingly resorting to physical attacks on cryptocurrency owners in order to steal their assets. According to expert Jamesson Loppe, which maintains a public database of such attacks, since the beginning of 2025 he has already recorded 34 incidents.

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