{"id":18503,"date":"2024-11-12T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ukrainian-forced-to-transfer-250000-usdt-in-thailand\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:04:52","slug":"ukrainian-forced-to-transfer-250000-usdt-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ukrainian-forced-to-transfer-250000-usdt-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Forced to Transfer 250,000 USDT in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old Ukrainian, Vyacheslav Leibov, fell victim to an armed assault on the island of Phuket, Thailand. The assailants were interested in the victim&#8217;s cryptocurrency, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/general\/2899637\/ukrainian-robbed-of-b8m-in-digital-money-in-phuket\">local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of November 8, Leibov visited a hotel room belonging to his friend, 18-year-old Alfred Chernyshuk. Also present in the room was 21-year-old Arman Grigoryan.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Leibov went to the bathroom, where he was ambushed by two masked individuals. They tied him up and, threatening with a knife and hammer, demanded 500,000 USDT. The victim managed to negotiate and reduce the ransom by half. <\/p>\n<p>After the transfer, the gang tied him to the bed and left the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Leibov managed to free himself. At the hotel reception, he learned that the room had been rented by Chernyshuk and Grigoryan.<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that unknown individuals kidnapped Dean Skurka, CEO of the Canadian cryptocurrency company WonderFi, and demanded $1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old Ukrainian, Vyacheslav Leibov, fell victim to an armed assault on the island of Phuket, Thailand. The assailants were interested in the victim&#8217;s cryptocurrency, according to local media. On the evening of November 8, Leibov visited a hotel room belonging to his friend, 18-year-old Alfred Chernyshuk. Also present in the room was 21-year-old Arman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18502,"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":[1154,1266],"class_list":["post-18503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-thailand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503","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=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}