Foreigner brutally murdered in Kyiv over bitcoins
29 July 2024 13:26
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In Kyiv, four men kidnapped and killed a foreigner for UAH 7 million in bitcoins. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the National Police.
The information about the abduction of the man was received by the capital’s police around midnight. Residents of a house in the Solomianskyi district heard screams and saw several unidentified people beating and forcing a man into a car.
“A special police operation was launched in Kyiv and Kyiv region to search for and detain the kidnappers, and all police units and operatives of the Main and Solomiansky police departments were sent to their location,” the statement said.
Law enforcement officers found that the 29-year-old foreigner was kidnapped by four men aged 24 to 29. The KORD special unit promptly detained the attackers.
According to the investigation, the criminals were preparing for the crime in advance. They learned that the man had bitcoins worth about UAH 7 million and decided to take possession of them.
“The defendants tracked down his address and around midnight, when he was returning home, they beat him, forced him into a car and took him to an abandoned building in Kyiv region. There, they forced the victim to transfer bitcoins to their crypto wallet, and then strangled him. To hide the traces of the crime, they changed the car’s licence plates and appearance, took the body to the forest, where they buried it, and cashed the cryptocurrency,” the police said.
Money, a car and other material evidence were seized from the detainees.
Criminal proceedings have been initiated under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- premeditated murder for mercenary purposes (Article 115, part 2, paragraph 6);
- robbery (part 4 of Article 187);
- unlawful deprivation of liberty committed by an organised group of persons (Article 146(3));
- concealment of a crime (Article 396, part 1).
The men were served a notice of suspicion and taken into custody without the right to be released on bail. They face life imprisonment.
