Two Tomsk residents will be tried for stealing 86 bitcoins
The attack took place back in October 2021. When the victim was leaving the house, one of the perpetrators was already waiting for him. Threatening him with a gun, he broke into the miner's apartment, and later he was joined by an accomplice. Law enforcement authorities managed to detain one of the suspects in St. Petersburg. The criminal pleaded guilty and returned part of the stolen money - 35 million rubles.
Later, his accomplice was caught. Both attackers were residents of Tomsk. The regional prosecutor's office charged them under Part 4 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code ("Robbery, committed by a group of persons on a large scale"). They face up to 15 years imprisonment and a fine of up to RUR 1 million.
"Acting in a group of persons by prior agreement with an accomplice, the criminal case against whom was allocated in separate proceedings, attacked a man in the entrance hall of an apartment building and took him into the apartment. Threatening with an object similar to a gun, the attackers forced the victim to enter the personal account of a cryptocurrency exchange and transfer 86 bitcoins to them", - is specified in the report of the prosecutor's office.
The criminals also stole a laptop and cash in addition to bitcoins. The total amount of damage was about 360 460 000 rubles. It is interesting that the purse of the Tomsk miner contained 90 bitcoins, but the attackers did not take all of them.
Recall that in 2021 there was another high-profile case - $1 million in USDT was taken from a Moscow cryptotrader.
