{"id":12585,"date":"2024-04-15T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/phuket-court-sentences-russians-for-cryptocurrency-kidnapping\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:06:29","slug":"phuket-court-sentences-russians-for-cryptocurrency-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/phuket-court-sentences-russians-for-cryptocurrency-kidnapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Phuket Court Sentences Russians for Cryptocurrency Kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Provincial Court of Phuket has sentenced five Russians to prison for the abduction of a Belarusian couple, aiming to extort 31 million baht (approximately $845,700) in cryptocurrency. This was reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/general\/2774279\/five-russians-sentenced-to-two-years-jail-each-in-crypto-abduction-case\">Bangkok Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, who initially denied involvement in the attack, fully confessed during the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Each received a two-year prison sentence and an obligation to return the stolen funds.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/five-russians-in-thailand-suspected-of-extorting-900000-in-cryptocurrency\">January<\/a>, the incident occurred on the 29th of that month. The attackers kidnapped the family on their way home and held them until they transferred all their cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Provincial Court of Phuket has sentenced five Russians to prison for the abduction of a Belarusian couple, aiming to extort 31 million baht (approximately $845,700) in cryptocurrency. This was reported by the Bangkok Post. The defendants, who initially denied involvement in the attack, fully confessed during the investigation. Each received a two-year prison sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154,1266],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-thailand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}