K&R database cleanup: handoff bundle

Self-contained bundle to continue the case-summary enrichment pass (70/256 done). sources/ holds the 364 .txt dossiers; scripts use relative paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018FJRciSWZc9HftS2edbzBf

merge-output/build_overrides_batch2.py

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+import json, io, sys
+sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
+PATH = __file__[:__file__.rfind("build_overrides")] + "summary-overrides.json"
+existing = json.load(open(PATH, encoding="utf-8"))
+
+def s(*cats):
+    return "\n\n".join(cats)
+
+B = {}
+
+B["350"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** Alexandre, a 35-year-old former cryptocurrency trader in the Paris area.",
+ "**Attackers:** Unidentified kidnappers; no arrests had been made and police said there were no strong leads at the time of reporting.",
+ "**Attack Method:** He was abducted and held captive between Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Police opened an investigation on the Tuesday night after a contact of his in Algeria received a photo of him on his knees with his hands tied; his phone was geolocated to Paris's 10th arrondissement.",
+ "**Violence Used:** He was strangled during his confinement and found with facial swelling and injuries; forensic technicians later collected traces from his clothing and skin.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers demanded a \u20ac10,000 ransom from his Algerian contact; the contact refused and alerted police, and no ransom was paid.",
+ "**Status:** He was released and found walking home around 4:00 a.m. on the Wednesday, recognised by anti-crime squad officers who described him as \"shocked\". Reported as roughly the tenth crypto-related kidnapping in France in recent months; the case remained at an early investigative stage.",
+)
+
+B["349"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A 31-year-old man (using the pseudonym \"Valeri\") who ran a small, illegal bitcoin-mining operation out of a garage in Abkhazia.",
+ "**Attackers:** Unidentified thieves who struck overnight while the premises were unoccupied.",
+ "**Attack Method:** He arrived one autumn morning to find the garage door busted open and the place cleared out; the theft was part of a wave of mining-rig burglaries across Abkhazia after the territory banned power-intensive mining in 2020.",
+ "**Violence Used:** None in this incident \u2014 an unoccupied-premises break-in with no confrontation (the wider wave included violent, armed raids elsewhere, but not here).",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The thieves took 20 mining servers worth about $10,000.",
+ "**Status:** Because mining is illegal in Abkhazia he could not turn to the police; he tried to track the thieves himself without success and lacked the money to rebuild the operation.",
+)
+
+B["340"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** Sergei Domogatskii, a popular Russian influencer in Bali, who said he was targeted by compatriots.",
+ "**Attackers:** By his account, two men in black ski masks carried out the abduction, with three more perpetrators arriving later; one of the assailants was alleged to be another Russian.",
+ "**Attack Method:** Around 10:30 p.m., as he rode a motorcycle near Sanur Beach, an Alphard car stopped in front of him and two masked men forced him inside, then took him to a house in the Jimbaran area of South Kuta.",
+ "**Violence Used:** He said he was beaten and tased, and sustained injuries to his right arm.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** He was forced to hand over his phone and transfer about US$4,600 in cryptocurrency; the three later arrivals then demanded a US$1 million ransom, which he could not pay.",
+ "**Status:** He was released several hours later in a field near the Apurva Kempinski Hotel in South Kuta and gave a statement to Bali Police (spokesperson Sr. Comr. Ariasandy); the account is his as reported to police.",
+)
+
+B["334"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** An unnamed businessman from S\u00e3o Paulo, lured to Goi\u00e2nia, Brazil. He survived.",
+ "**Attackers:** A four-man scheme \u2014 mastermind Josemar Alencar Linhares de Oliveira (who posed as an advisor to the president of the Goi\u00e1s Legislative Assembly), the driver Gabriel Pires de Lima (alias \"Danilo\", who pretended to be a fellow victim), a gunman hidden in the car's trunk, and a third armed man who joined mid-journey.",
+ "**Attack Method:** Planning began in February; Josemar arranged a business meeting and even offered to cover the victim's stay. The victim arrived on 24 June; soon after leaving the hotel, a man sprang from the trunk into the back seat and subdued him at gunpoint, and a third armed man joined. They rifled his suitcase and accessed his bank accounts and digital wallets on his phone.",
+ "**Violence Used:** He was punched in the head, held with a gun to his head and ribs, and threatened with death; ultimately he was thrown from the moving car at about 30 km/h, fracturing three ribs and suffering internal bleeding before a passing truck driver rescued him.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The gang aimed for 2\u20134 million reais in cryptocurrency but the victim could not access his wallet on the spot; they obtained only R$6,813.28 via Pix.",
+ "**Status:** After about 90 minutes a police chase on the GO-020 highway ended with two suspects (Gabriel Pires de Lima and Tiago Oliveira Rocha) killed and one escaping unidentified. Josemar fled to the USA on 30 June and was arrested on arrival; he was convicted as the intellectual author and sentenced to 12 years and 9 months.",
+)
+
+B["323"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A crypto investor in Las Vegas who had been hosting a cryptocurrency event at a business in Downtown Las Vegas earlier that night.",
+ "**Attackers:** Three teenagers \u2014 Belal Ashraf and Austin Fletcher, both 16 and from Pasco County, Florida, plus a third teenager who had since left the United States \u2014 with a fourth person appearing to direct them by speakerphone. Ashraf and Fletcher were certified as adults and charged with robbery, kidnapping and extortion.",
+ "**Attack Method:** In November, after the event, the victim returned to his apartment complex; the three approached and forced him into the back seat of their vehicle at gunpoint, put a towel over his head and told him not to look at them, then drove him more than 70 miles across the Nevada border to White Hills, Arizona.",
+ "**Violence Used:** He was held at gunpoint and hooded, and told he would live if he complied but that they had his father and would kill him if he did not.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They forced his passwords and account access and took about $4 million in cryptocurrency and NFTs.",
+ "**Status:** Released in the Arizona desert, he walked about five miles alone to a gas station and called a friend. Investigators (with FBI assistance) tracked a suspect vehicle from Florida; Ashraf was released on electronic monitoring and Fletcher's bail set at $4 million, while the third teenager remained abroad. (This appears to be the same incident recorded separately as case 365.)",
+)
+
+B["322"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A French man in his fifties, the father of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur whose company is based in Malta and France, in Paris.",
+ "**Attackers:** An organised gang; four suspects were arrested and taken into custody.",
+ "**Attack Method:** He was abducted around 10:30 a.m. on the Thursday in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and held for two days; the apartment where he was kept was reportedly being sealed off, probably to film staged hostage videos.",
+ "**Violence Used:** One of his fingers was severed.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers demanded a transfer of between \u20ac5 million and \u20ac7 million for his release.",
+ "**Status:** He was freed on the Saturday night in Palaiseau (Essonne) during a police operation coordinated by the BIS with the BRB and the criminal brigade; four suspects were in custody and an organised-gang kidnapping and extortion investigation was opened.",
+)
+
+B["321"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A retired schoolteacher in Recife, Brazil \u2014 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 \u2014 two suspects arrested in Abreu e Lima and Olinda and two in Extremoz (RN).",
+)
+
+B["317"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A 59-year-old Johor businessman, abducted outside his home in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia.",
+ "**Attackers:** An organised operation split into planning/execution, item-disposal and ransom-handling groups; police named 11+ suspects \u2014 locals plus three Vietnamese (two men and a woman in their 30s), aged 23\u201358, several with prior records \u2014 with one still at large. Police declined to comment on a possible family tie between a suspect and the victim.",
+ "**Attack Method:** He was seized at 5 a.m. on 13 October 2024 outside his home as he prepared to take a ride-hailing car to Senai International Airport for a business trip.",
+ "**Violence Used:** From the suspects police seized a Beretta pistol, 250 live rounds and a pair of handcuffs.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers first sought RM30 million, lowered to RM20 million after negotiation, reportedly paid; police recovered RM7.2 million of it \u2014 RM1.95 million cash, S$1 million (RM3.3 million) in foreign currency, and 400,000 USDT (about RM1.75 million).",
+ "**Status:** The victim was released after the ransom. Police arrested 10 men and three women and extended their remand, seized the firearm and ammunition, and were still seeking one suspect; the case is being pursued under Section 3(1) of the Kidnapping Act 1961.",
+)
+
+B["315"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** An undisclosed Bitcoin holder in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden \u2014 one of the well-known Swedish crypto figures targeted at home, as flagged by crypto proponent Eric Wall citing Swedish outlets LT and Aftonbladet.",
+ "**Attackers:** Masked, armed men; the number involved in this incident was not specified.",
+ "**Attack Method:** A home invasion, part of a pattern in which criminals identify Bitcoin holders through social media (often striking shortly after a victim discusses crypto publicly) and through Sweden's public-access laws that expose home addresses and tax records.",
+ "**Violence Used:** The victim was tied up and physically abused to force access to their Bitcoin.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The target was the victim's Bitcoin holdings; no amount was disclosed.",
+ "**Status:** Reported second-hand via Eric Wall and Swedish media rather than a detailed case report; Cointelegraph had asked the Swedish Police Authority for details and any arrests. (Source is a round-up article; case-specific detail is limited.)",
+)
+
+B["312"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** An unnamed Israeli cryptocurrency entrepreneur, robbed in his apartment in Tel Aviv; he later left the country and was left nearly penniless.",
+ "**Attackers:** Robbers who broke into his home; the number was not specified and no arrests were reported.",
+ "**Attack Method:** About two weeks before mid-June 2023, the robbers forced their way into his Tel Aviv apartment and made him transfer his crypto holdings to wallets they controlled.",
+ "**Violence Used:** He was beaten severely and held at gunpoint; afterward a severed animal head and a hateful graffiti message were left near his door.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** He was forced to transfer all of his cryptocurrency, but the platform and wallet providers froze the transfers and conversions as suspicious, so neither the robbers nor the victim retained access; the amount was not disclosed.",
+ "**Status:** He reported the robbery to police and left Israel; the Israel Police opened an investigation into the severed-animal-head and graffiti incident.",
+)
+
+existing.update(B)
+json.dump(existing, open(PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8"), ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+print("wrote", len(B), "summaries; file now has", len(existing), "entries")
+for k in sorted(B, key=int):
+    print(f"  {k}: {len(B[k])} chars")