According to the Argentinean newspaper La Nación, referring to sources in the law enforcement agencies of Argentina, a young couple of crypto entrepreneurs was invited to a business meeting in the local bar in the Palermo area by two compatriots. After that, they were lured into a rented apartment, where they beat, tied up and forced to transfer $ 43,398 in a cryptocurrency to a wallet of attackers. In addition, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of $ 100,000 from relatives of victims in Russia, sending them a video with threats and requesting a cryptocurrency payment through a QR code.
The Buenos Aires police, which reacted to an emergency call, found a couple of related to the apartment. The criminals had already disappeared by that time. According to the investigation, both suspects left Argentina through Eseis International Airport for several hours after the incident: one, allegedly, went to the United Arab Emirates, the other to Turkey.
In the interests of the investigation, La Nación does not report the names of criminals and their victims. However, by comments Russian participants Crypto communitythe victims of the attacks could be Oksana Druylev, the ex-spouse of the late founder of the Garatex Stanislav Drulev, with her current husband and a three-month daughter.
Law enforcement agencies of Argentina note that due to the rapid increase in cryptocurrency prices, a hunt for large digital assets and members of their families began around the world. In some cases, police officers believe, successful crypto -investors themselves provoke criminals themselves, since they openly share data on the luxurious lifestyle and balance of their cryptocurns on social networks and other public sources. According to preliminary data, the kidnappers of Druzhaleva could be extortionist-gastrolets who purposefully hunted for her and specially flew to Latin America to commit a crime.
Earlier, the French authorities organized a large -scale special operation, as a result of which more than 20 suspects were detained. They are accused of planning the abductions of the owners of crypto businesses and their relatives with the aim of extorting cryptocurrencies.
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