{"id":23657,"date":"2025-05-05T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kidnappers-of-crypto-businessmans-father-arrested-in-france\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:17:56","slug":"kidnappers-of-crypto-businessmans-father-arrested-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kidnappers-of-crypto-businessmans-father-arrested-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers of Crypto Businessman&#8217;s Father Arrested in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French police have freed the father of an entrepreneur allegedly linked to the crypto industry. The perpetrators demanded a ransom ranging from \u20ac5 million to \u20ac7 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2025\/05\/04\/abducted-dad-of-crypto-firm-boss-freed-in-french-police-raid_6740891_7.html\">local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors stated that the kidnappers severed the hostage&#8217;s finger. Five suspects, including the driver, have been detained. The family did not pay the ransom. All those arrested are men around 20 years old. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The victim is known to be the father of one of the &#8220;crypto millionaires&#8221;\u2014together with his son, they own a marketing company in Malta that provides services to crypto firms. The kidnapped man&#8217;s wife reported that they had previously received threats.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, Ledger co-founder David Balland and his wife were <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/co-founder-of-ledger-freed-after-kidnapping-in-france\">abducted<\/a> from their home in the Cher department. The perpetrators <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ransom-demanded-for-kidnapped-ledger-co-founder-revealed\">demanded<\/a> a ransom of \u20ac10 million.<\/p>\n<p>To expedite the payment, the criminals severed the businessman&#8217;s finger and sent a video of the act to Balland&#8217;s colleague Eric Larchev\u00eaque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French police have freed the father of an entrepreneur allegedly linked to the crypto industry. The perpetrators demanded a ransom ranging from \u20ac5 million to \u20ac7 million, according to local media. Prosecutors stated that the kidnappers severed the hostage&#8217;s finger. Five suspects, including the driver, have been detained. The family did not pay the ransom. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23656,"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":[1154,1269,134],"class_list":["post-23657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-france"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"84","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657","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=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}