365 million worth of bitcoins stolen from a resident of Tomsk

A resident of Tomsk became a victim of raiders and lost not only his property, but also his crypto assets by almost 365million rubles.

The 24-year-old man was met by two robbers inmasks and weapons when leaving the apartment. At gunpoint, the young man was forced to return to the apartment. There, the raiders forced him to transfer 85 bitcoins to their wallet, “noble” leaving the owner 5 coins in the account. At the current exchange rate, the amount of stolen military vehicles is 364,159,540 rubles. After this, they tied the victim with tape and kept him there for 8 hours, waiting for his accomplice to confirm the withdrawal of funds. When leaving, the robbers also took the apartment owner's laptop, smartphone and cash.

The victim managed to free himself from the bonds after the robber left and call the police.

Law enforcers quickly detained one of thesuspects, who was able to return bitcoin only 36 million rubles. The location of the rest of the cryptocurrency and the circumstances of the incident are being investigated by the investigation. It is not yet clear where the criminals got the information about the cryptocurrency and the victim's place of residence. However, how the owner himself was able to accumulate 90 bitcoins is also not clear. The young man is officially unemployed.

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