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CASE 321  |  Crypto manager  |  March 21, 2025  |  Brazil
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DATABASE RECORD
  id                  321
  date                March 21, 2025
  original_date       nan
  year                2025
  month               3
  quarter             2025-Q1
  victim              Crypto manager
  location            Recife
  country             Brazil
  scenario            Kidnapping
  description         Crypto manager surveilled, mother kidnapped, ransomed for 5 BTC. 4 people were later arrested.
  kidnappings         1
  violence_torture    0
  drugs_alcohol       0
  weapons             0
  theft               1
  life_taken          0
  money_wanted        5 Bitcoins (R $3.3 million)
  coin_type           Bitcoin
  reports             Pernambuco
  notes               Victim was the mother of a man who works in cryptocurrency management
  has_processed_date  0
  created_at          2025-11-14 09:05:23

AI SUMMARY  [revised on review, verified against the sources in this file. Live DB still holds the shorter bulk-import summary — apply this to it.]
  **Victims:** A retired schoolteacher in Recife, Brazil — the mother of a man who works in cryptocurrency management and lives in Portugal. (The DB victim field labels this case for the son; the person actually kidnapped was his mother.)
  
  **Attackers:** A gang with at least two men in the car; four people were later arrested, including two women alleged to have received part of the ransom in crypto. They used a vehicle with a cloned licence plate and were charged with extortion through kidnapping and money laundering.
  
  **Attack Method:** The gang monitored the son's social media daily, judged the family wealthy, and mapped the mother's home and routines. On 21 March 2025 they followed her to the Forum Desembargador Benildes de Souza Ribeiro courthouse in Imbiribeira and seized her as she left, taking her to Olinda.
  
  **Violence Used:** She was held captive for more than 12 hours at gunpoint.
  
  **Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** Her son was forced to pay five bitcoins, worth about R$3.3 million at the time.
  
  **Status:** She was released near the Ouro Preto neighbourhood in Olinda. All four arrest and home-search warrants were served — two suspects arrested in Abreu e Lima and Olinda and two in Extremoz (RN).

LINKED SOURCES
  [url]  https://g1.globo.com/pe/pernambuco/noticia/2025/08/13/professora-aposentada-e-sequestrada.ghtml

NOTES ON THIS FILE
  * matched to sheet row 221: reviewed and approved individually

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ARTICLE 1
  Source   Pernambuco
  URL      https://g1.globo.com/pe/pernambuco/noticia/2025/08/13/professora-aposentada-e-sequestrada.ghtml
  Origin   reported_K&R sheet, row 221, column "Articles"
  Length   3,182 chars
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Retired teacher is kidnapped and criminals demand ransom of $ 3.3 million in bitcoins
Police announced on Wednesday (13) that arrested four people for the crime, which happened in Recife.
By g1 Pernambuco

13/08/2025 16h17  Updated 2 Months ago

Criminals are arrested for kidnapping retiree and ask for ransom of $ 3 million in bitcoin
Criminals are arrested for kidnapping retiree and ask for ransom of $ 3 million in bitcoin

A retired teacher was kidnapped and the criminals asked for a ransom of R $ 3.3 million in bitcoin, in the Reef. On Wednesday (13), the Civil Police announced that they arrested the four responsible for the crime, which happened in March this year (see video above). According to the corporation, the woman was chased by the gang, who kidnapped her the moment she left a forum.

The case was disclosed at a press conference by the Civil Police.Also according to the corporation, the criminals used a vehicle with a cloned plate to practice the crime.

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The four criminals are charged with extortion through kidnapping and money laundering. According to the delegate Jorge Pinto, responsible for the investigation, the kidnapped woman is the mother of a man who works in cryptocurrency management.

"The criminals who started to monitor the social networks of this crypto trader daily and believed that it would be a wealthy person, who would have large financial volume to move. This victim was persecuted, they were able to identify the addresses she frequented, the house, daily chores" said the delegate.

The kidnapping took place on March 21, 2025, when the woman went to the Forum Desembargador Benildes de Souza Ribeiro, in Imbiribeira, in the South Zone of Recife.

"[The group] would have waited for this victim to leave the house and proceeded to pursue her to the premises of the Special Court. One of the authors would have entered soon after the victim's entry into the court. They waited for the moment when she would leave the dependencies of the Judiciary to be able to snatch her" said the delegate Jorge Pinto.

There were at least two men in the car. The woman was taken to Olinda and held captive for more than 12 hours at gunpoint. Her son, who lives in Portugal, was forced to pay five bitcoins, which, at the time, amounted to R $ 3.3 million.

"She was released in the vicinity of the Ouro Preto neighborhood in Olinda, and then began investigative activities by the Special Operations Group. Of the four temporary arrest warrants issued, all were served, as were the home search warrants. Four were dispatched, and we were able to comply with all four" said the delegate.

Two of the criminals were arrested in Abreu and Lima and Olinda, in Greater Recife, and two others, in the municipality of Extremoz (RN). Among the targets are two women.

"What we can say, in order not to harm the investigations, is that the women who were arrested would have received part of the ransom payment in crypto assets, making it difficult not only to trace, but also to identify the origin and value that were deposited. So we firmly believe in the criminal accountability of these people" he concluded.

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