{"id":57581,"date":"2022-02-11T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57581"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:25:15","slug":"fsb-officers-robbed-a-saint-petersburg-resident-of-cryptocurrency-and-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/fsb-officers-robbed-a-saint-petersburg-resident-of-cryptocurrency-and-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"FSB officers robbed a Saint Petersburg resident of cryptocurrency and cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old resident of Saint Petersburg became the victim of an assault in which unknown attackers seized half a million rubles in cash and cryptocurrency. Fontanka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2022\/02\/11\/70437695\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary information, in the evening two men in black leather jackets met the victim near his home. They identified themselves as FSB officers and placed him in a Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>In the car, the Saint Petersburg resident was beaten and 110,000 rubles in cash were taken from him. Using the victim&#8217;s mobile phone, the attackers also transferred 3,800 units of an unnamed cryptocurrency to their wallets.<\/p>\n<p>They then drove him to a local shopping centre and dumped him from the car, the victim said.<\/p>\n<p>The total loss was valued at 535,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened in connection with the robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December 2021, a Saint Petersburg court sentenced two locals to nine and seven years in prison for kidnapping <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/saint-petersburg-court-convicts-cryptocurrency-thieves-in-a-55-million-ruble-case\">cryptocurrency worth 55 million rubles<\/a> under the guise of FSB officers.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old resident of Saint Petersburg was the victim of an assault during which unknown attackers took half a million rubles in cash and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57582,"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":[1154,1444,1848],"class_list":["post-57581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement","tag-saint-petersburg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581","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=57581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57583,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions\/57583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}