{"id":40222,"date":"2021-04-06T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T08:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40222"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:11:30","slug":"bitcoin-extortionists-threatened-to-blow-up-two-business-centres-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-extortionists-threatened-to-blow-up-two-business-centres-in-st-petersburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin extortionists threatened to blow up two business centres in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attackers demanded 5 BTC (over 22 million rubles at the exchange rate at the time of writing), threatening to blow up bombs in two business centres in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nevnov.ru\/870717-lyubitel-bitkoinov-zaminiroval-dva-biznes-centra-v-tom-chisle-i-gazproma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nevnov.ru\/870717-lyubitel-bitkoinov-zaminiroval-dva-biznes-centra-v-tom-chisle-i-gazproma\">local media<\/a>, threats via email with ransom demands were received by the Fort Tower and Renaissance Park business centres.<\/p>\n<p>However, after evacuating people and inspecting the buildings, no explosive devices were found.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are seeking the perpetrators; the question of filing criminal charges is under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in 2019, Russia saw a wave of false bomb threats after media investigations suggested possible involvement of entrepreneur Konstantin Malofeyev and FSB officers in the theft of funds from the WEX cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n<p>An unknown &#8216;miner&#8217; demanded payment of 120 BTC stolen from the exchange. He subsequently repeatedly threatened explosions and demanded a ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attackers demanded 5 BTC (over 22 million rubles at the exchange rate at the time of writing), threatening to blow up bombs in two business centres in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40223,"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":[1154,1848],"class_list":["post-40222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-saint-petersburg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40222","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=40222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40224,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40222\/revisions\/40224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}