A Belgian court declared three people against the acquiring of the wife of a crypto coach, marking another famous case amid the rising wave of code temptations in France.
The Brussels Criminal Court has sentenced three temptants to 12 years in prison for the induction of crypto investors and trading coach Stephen Winkel, as first reported by local news agency La Dernière Holle.
The incident occurred outside a home in the Brussels forest in December last year. There, the victim was forced to take him and held hostage in a van. After Winkel issued the alarm, police chased the vehicle and eventually stopped it near Bruges, releasing the victim and arresting the suspect.
The court also ordered the convicted temptants to pay the victim more than 1 million euros in civil damages, and rejected the allegation that they acted under compulsiveness in the treasury.
While the three perpetrators were held accountable, the court said the ringleader behind the attack remained unidentified.
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Winkel’s case is part of the intrusive waves of code-related lures that are cleaned across France. Recently, a 26-year-old Tiktok influencer from Juvisy-Sur-orge near Paris has been accused of four men who are demanding 50,000 euros in code. The attacker targeted the influencer due to his social media presence, but released him when he found out that his crypto account was almost empty.
Other cases include acquiring and cutting the father of a wealthy crypto investor who was held at a ransom of 7 million euros, and attempting to lure the CEO of Paris-based Crypto Exchange Paymium’s daughter.
These cases reflect growth trends since last year, with France accounting for six of the 22 crypto-related temptations worldwide. This accounts for more than any other country, and more than any other country.
France could have been born as a hotspot for cryptocurrency entrants, as it is concentrated with visible cryptocurrency founders and companies like Ledger and Paymium. The 2020 ledger data breaches, which published the names and home addresses of thousands of wallet buyers, further amplified the vulnerability of French users to these attacks.
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