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CASE 118  |  Ilya Basin  |  February 3, 2022  |  USA
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DATABASE RECORD
  id                  118
  date                February 3, 2022
  original_date       February 3, 2022
  year                2022
  month               2
  quarter             2022-Q1
  victim              Ilya Basin
  location            Brooklyn, New York
  country             USA
  scenario            Home Invasion
  description         Crypto consultant hog-tied, beaten during home invasion.
  kidnappings         1
  violence_torture    1
  drugs_alcohol       0
  weapons             0
  theft               1
  life_taken          0
  money_wanted        2 watches worth $350,000
  coin_type           (null)
  reports             New York Post
  notes               He was tied up and restrained (threatened to choke him out only if he screamed), so on the edge of violence/torture
  has_processed_date  1
  created_at          2025-11-13 05:44:45

AI SUMMARY  [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
  **Victim:** Ilya Basin
  
  **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators
  
  **Attack Method:** Home Invasion - victim kidnapped
  
  **Violence Used:** Physical assault
  
  **Crypto Stolen:** 2 watches worth $350,000
  
  **Status:** Investigation ongoing

LINKED SOURCES
  [url]  https://nypost.com/2022/02/09/brooklyn-crypto-consultant-hog-tied-beaten-during-home-invasion/

NOTES ON THIS FILE
  * matched to sheet row 119: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides

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ARTICLE 1
  Source   New York Post
  URL      https://nypost.com/2022/02/09/brooklyn-crypto-consultant-hog-tied-beaten-during-home-invasion/
  Origin   reported_K&R sheet, row 119, column "Articles"
  Length   4,538 chars
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Video: Brooklyn crypto consultant hog-tied, beaten during home invasion
By Reuven Fenton and Amanda Woods
Published Feb. 9, 2022
 Updated Feb. 9, 2022, 5:42 p.m. ET
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Disturbing home surveillance footage captures a pair of home invaders hog-tying a Brooklyn man and raiding his home for two pricey designer watches.

The footage obtained by The Post Wednesday shows a ski-mask-wearing suspect kneeling over 37-year-old Ilya Basin and holding his zip-tied hands inside his high-rise apartment at West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach around noon on Feb. 3.

The duo stole a Rolex Presidential watch and an Audemars Piguet watch, which Basin says are worth a combined $350,000 today. 

The terrifying ordeal lasted about a half-hour, the victim said. 

“Don’t scream or we’re going to have to choke you out,” one of the suspects can be heard saying as Basin lay shirtless on the ground and his Northern Inuit dog, Smokey, barked in the background.  

Terrifying video shows a pair of home invasion robbers (one wearing a ski mask) barging into a man’s Brooklyn apartment at West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue.
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A pair of home invasion robbers barged into Ilya Basin’s apartment at West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue.
“I’m not going to scream,” he replied. “I promise.”

Basin, a crypto consultant and tech buff who lives with his girlfriend – who wasn’t home at the time – said the intruders tricked him by ringing the bell and placing someone else’s package in front of his door. 

The unsuspecting victim saw the package on his Nest camera and opened the door to pick it up. 

The robbers ransacked Basin's bedroom and took a pair of designer watches worth more than $300,000.
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The robbers ransacked Basin’s bedroom and took a pair of designer watches worth more than $300,000.
Gabriella Bass
“As I opened it, they both bum-rushed me,” Basin said. “Maybe if I had some karate training, I would have acted differently, but my first instinct was to try to swing the door close[d].”

The ski-mask-wearing suspect then “took me down,” Basin said.

“I hit my head on the dog’s food bowl,” he added. “Once I was on the ground, they zip-tied my hands behind me. They put tape over my mouth and taped my ankles together.

“For the first minute or two, I was just hoping that I was going to wake up,” he recalled. “I didn’t think it was real. It happened so quick that I didn’t know what was going on. It [makes] no sense.”

One of the suspects is shown on the video wandering around the apartment and repeatedly asking, “Where’s the money?”

At one point, the same intruder kicked him in the face and told him to “shut up” as he whimpered on the ground.

Watches stolen in home invasion.
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The home invaders took a Rolex Presidential watch from Basin.
Gabriella Bass
In a separate video released by cops, the invader is shown rifling through the refrigerator. Basin said he took out French fries and blueberries, apparently to keep Smokey quiet. 

The robber ultimately found the watches in their original boxes in Basin’s bedroom closet and stuffed them in a backpack. 

The duo disconnected Basin’s Internet router and untied him before they bolted, according to the victim.

home invasion 
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Basin said the terrifying ordeal went on for about 30 minutes.
DCPI
Basin said the incident was “the most traumatizing thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“I’ve been living in this city since I was six years old,” Basin said. “This is my home, but this makes me feel like I should definitely get out of here. I don’t have enemies. I’m a sweetheart of a dude. It’s very shocking that this happened.”

He added that all his wealth was in those two watches. 

“That’s all my money,” he said. “It’s literally all I have. It was my one hope of getting a house, getting out of here. It was my ‘one ticket’ situation to get a better life.” 

Cops continued to search for the suspects Wednesday.

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  Source     nypost.com
  URL        https://nypost.com/2022/02/09/brooklyn-crypto-consultant-hog-tied-beaten-during-home-invasion/
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  Retrieved  2026-09-05T12:52:38+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200)
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  Kept       paragraphs ALL 28 paragraphs, untrimmed
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  Trimmed    NOT TRIMMED. Full page extract; trim on read-through.
  Caveat     retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
             from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)

Brooklyn crypto consultant hog-tied, beaten during home invasion

See more of our coverage in your search results.

Disturbing home surveillance footage captures a pair of home invaders hog-tying a Brooklyn man and raiding his home for two pricey designer watches.

The footage obtained by The Post Wednesday shows a ski-mask-wearing suspect kneeling over 37-year-old Ilya Basin and holding his zip-tied hands inside his high-rise apartment at West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach around noon on Feb. 3.

The duo stole a Rolex Presidential watch and an Audemars Piguet watch, which Basin says are worth a combined $350,000 today.

The terrifying ordeal lasted about a half-hour, the victim said.

“Don’t scream or we’re going to have to choke you out,” one of the suspects can be heard saying as Basin lay shirtless on the ground and his Northern Inuit dog, Smokey, barked in the background.

“I’m not going to scream,” he replied. “I promise.”

Basin, a crypto consultant and tech buff who lives with his girlfriend – who wasn’t home at the time – said the intruders tricked him by ringing the bell and placing someone else’s package in front of his door.

The unsuspecting victim saw the package on his Nest camera and opened the door to pick it up.

“As I opened it, they both bum-rushed me,” Basin said. “Maybe if I had some karate training, I would have acted differently, but my first instinct was to try to swing the door close[d].”

The ski-mask-wearing suspect then “took me down,” Basin said.

“I hit my head on the dog’s food bowl,” he added. “Once I was on the ground, they zip-tied my hands behind me. They put tape over my mouth and taped my ankles together.

“For the first minute or two, I was just hoping that I was going to wake up,” he recalled. “I didn’t think it was real. It happened so quick that I didn’t know what was going on. It [makes] no sense.”

One of the suspects is shown on the video wandering around the apartment and repeatedly asking, “Where’s the money?”

At one point, the same intruder kicked him in the face and told him to “shut up” as he whimpered on the ground.

In a separate video released by cops, the invader is shown rifling through the refrigerator. Basin said he took out French fries and blueberries, apparently to keep Smokey quiet.

The robber ultimately found the watches in their original boxes in Basin’s bedroom closet and stuffed them in a backpack.

The duo disconnected Basin’s Internet router and untied him before they bolted, according to the victim.

Basin said the incident was “the most traumatizing thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“I’ve been living in this city since I was six years old,” Basin said. “This is my home, but this makes me feel like I should definitely get out of here. I don’t have enemies. I’m a sweetheart of a dude. It’s very shocking that this happened.”

He added that all his wealth was in those two watches.

“That’s all my money,” he said. “It’s literally all I have. It was my one hope of getting a house, getting out of here. It was my ‘one ticket’ situation to get a better life.”

Cops continued to search for the suspects Wednesday.

A pair of home invasion robbers barged into Ilya Basin's apartment at West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue.

The robbers ransacked Basin's bedroom and took a pair of designer watches worth more than $300,000.

The home invaders took a Rolex Presidential watch from Basin.

Basin said the terrifying ordeal went on for about 30 minutes.

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