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Five suspects arrested after a magistrate and her mother were held 30 hours in a crypto ransom plot; no ransom was paid, and victims escaped to raise the alarm.
- French authorities have arrested five suspects after a magistrate and her mother were held captive for around 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot.
- The captors threatened to mutilate the victims if the cryptocurrency transfer was not made quickly, according to the prosecutor.
- The two women managed to free themselves and raise the alarm, and were rescued without any ransom being paid.
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He demanded a ransom from the man, which he was supposed to pay in cryptocurrency.
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French police arrest five over crypto-linked magistrate kidnapping
French authorities have arrested five suspects after a magistrate and her mother were held captive last week for around 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot, prosecutors told AFP on Sunday.
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lejsl.comA magistrate from Grenoble and her mother were kidnapped overnight Wednesday to Thursday by a commando unit from a house in Isère, as revealed by Le Dauphiné Libéré. The kidnappers attempted to pressure the young woman's partner, the head of a Lyon-based company involved in cryptocurrencies.
A judge from Grenoble and her mother were abducted and sequestered by abductors. The two women were found in a garage in Bourg-lès-Valence (Drôme) this Friday morning. The investigators prefer the trail of a sequestration linked to cryptocurrency, the judge's spouse practising in the field.
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