Published on: 2025-07-23 15:44:00
In brief: There has been a spate of kidnappings taking place across France and Western Europe in which victims are cryptocurrency investors. The most recent incident involved the owner of a crypto marketing firm having his finger cut off by attackers. Police say the man could have been mutilated further had he not been rescued. The unidentified 60-year-old man was abducted in broad daylight at 10.30am on Thursday morning while walking down Paris' 14th arrondissement, writes The Guardian. Four m
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Crypto prices are on a veritable roller coaster ride as president Donald Trump's initiatives and deregulation embolden crypto whales to funnel billions into digital currency — a space that advocates say is poised to become the legitimate business they've long predicted, but which keeps attracting scams and crime. And not all crypto-criminals are hiding behind a computer screen, a lesson that famed OnlyFans creator Kaitlyn "Amouranth" Siragusa found out the hard way on Sunday, when she says home
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In the early morning of January 21, David Balland and his wife were forced at gunpoint into separate vehicles outside their home in Méreau, a commune in the opulent Loire Valley, France. The kidnappers had targeted Balland, who cofounded cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger, with the goal of winning a ransom, a prosecutor has claimed. The kidnappers communicated their demands—the specifics of which have not been disclosed by law enforcement—to Éric Larchevêque, another Ledger cofounder. To flus
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