News reports show that a lured crypto trader allegedly threatened torture and death by a gang demanding 30,000 euros ($31,000) from a gang demanding 30,000 euros ($31,000) has been released. ($31,000) and broke both ankles.
The 34-year-old met his suspect in Marbella, Spain, where he convinced him to join in a drink at his Estepona apartment. The gang was then told he had lured him out of the client’s account and told him to pay the ransom using a code.
The victim claimed that he called the client to pretend to comply and retrieve the code needed to access the code. However, he instead contacted a friend who had subsequently taken police to the apartment where he was in custody.
However, before police arrived, the suspect attempted to escape through the apartment balcony while the tempted criminal was distracted, taking matters into his own hands. Unfortunately, the escape did not go to the plan, and he collapsed, Breaks both his ankles.
Read more: Pakistani police officer remand USDT theft and tricking
Shortly afterwards, armed police moved and arrested the tempted snake trying to escape.
A police search of the apartment found 25kg of pink cocaine, two guns, 10,000 euros ($10,300), three knives containing a butterfly knife, and two high-value watches.
This year we mark another inviting case involving crypto traders. Last month, Crypto Wallet CEO David Balland was lured, his finger was cut off and a large crypto ransom was demanded.
More recently, officials from the Pakistani Terrorism Bureau have been remanded into a plot suspected of stealing $340,000 worth of tethers (USDT) from crypto traders using police vans and mediocre police officers.
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