{"id":30492,"date":"2020-10-22T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30492"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:34:44","slug":"latvian-resident-planned-to-murder-cryptocurrency-owners-to-obtain-e500000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/latvian-resident-planned-to-murder-cryptocurrency-owners-to-obtain-e500000\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian resident planned to murder cryptocurrency owners to obtain \u20ac500,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Police of Latvia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vp.gov.lv\/lv\/jaunums\/valsts-policija-noversusi-divu-personu-nolaupisanas-un-slepkavibas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0442\u0432\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0430<\/a> the kidnapping and murder of two people, planned by the offender to obtain cryptocurrency from them worth about \u20ac500,000.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Information about the planned crime was obtained by authorities in September. They found that a resident of Riga was seeking kidnappers in the criminal underworld. The offender planned to force the victim to transfer the cryptocurrency held to the specified wallet and then kill.<\/p>\n<p>During surveillance of the crime&#8217;s organizer, investigators established that he was already tailing the victim, monitoring the routes of movement and daily routine.<\/p>\n<p>The offender had also prepared torture devices to be used if the victim refused to disclose the passwords to his cryptocurrency wallets.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, police learned that another kidnapping and murder were planned under a similar scenario. As a result of two kidnappings, the organizer intended to obtain cryptocurrency worth \u20ac500,000.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on 7 October as he waited for the victim with the aim of kidnapping. The suspect fully admitted his guilt.<\/p>\n<p>He had previously been convicted, including for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The Riga resident was remanded in custody by court order for the duration of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, a Moscow court began considering the case of four defendants charged with attempting to extort bitcoins from a Moscow-based entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Police of Latvia prevented the kidnapping and murder of two people planned by the offender to obtain cryptocurrency from them worth about \u20ac500,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,699,1444],"class_list":["post-30492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-latvia","tag-law-enforcement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492","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=30492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30494,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492\/revisions\/30494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}