================================================================================================ CASE 050 | Tjeerd H. | February 10, 2019 | Netherlands ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 50 date February 10, 2019 original_date February 10, 2019 year 2019 month 2 quarter 2019-Q1 victim Tjeerd H. location Drouwenerveen, Netherlands country Netherlands scenario Authority Misuse description Bitcoin trader tortured with drill kidnappings 1 violence_torture 1 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 1 theft 0 life_taken 0 money_wanted (null) coin_type (null) reports Independent notes (null) has_processed_date 1 created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45 (flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.) AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources] **Victim:** Tjeerd H. **Attackers:** Individuals misusing authority **Attack Method:** Authority Misuse - victim kidnapped **Violence Used:** Torture, torture with power tools **Crypto Stolen:** No theft completed **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://www.the-independent.com/tech/bitcoin-robbery-torture-cryptocurrency-netherlands-a8807986.html NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 51: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source Independent URL https://www.the-independent.com/tech/bitcoin-robbery-torture-cryptocurrency-netherlands-a8807986.html Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 51, column "Articles" Length 1,037 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bitcoin trader brutally tortured with drill in cryptocurrency robbery Criminals disguised as police attacked the victim for an hour in front of his four-year-old daughter Police in the Netherlands are investigating the brutal torture of a bitcoin trader, whose home was raided by criminals looking for cryptocurrency. Three robbers disguised as police entered the victim's home in Drenthe and attacked him with a drill in front of his four-year-old daughter, Dutch publication De Telegraaf reported. The hour-long ordeal also involved the victim being threatened with firearms, before the perpetrators fled in an escape vehicle. The digital nature of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies mean long and complex passwords – or private keys – are required to access assets and transfer them to another digital wallet. Police did not reveal the identity of the victim but it is not believed any cryptocurrency was stolen during the raid. A spokesperson for Northern Netherlands Police told The Independent that the investigation is ongoing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED] !! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person. !! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article. !! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting. Source the-independent.com URL https://www.the-independent.com/tech/bitcoin-robbery-torture-cryptocurrency-netherlands-a8807986.html Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:55:00+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200) Language unknown Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 2-14 of 16 Length 2,125 chars Integrity sha256 81a3950a187586d450229a51d4460c71bdb34b1c10c225c8440b9440320af208 Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 2-14 plus headline [0]; dropped 1 leading and 1 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 3. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) Bitcoin trader brutally tortured with drill in cryptocurrency robbery | The Independent | The Independent Police in the Netherlands are investigating the brutal torture of a bitcoin trader, whose home was raided by criminals looking for cryptocurrency. Three robbers disguised as police entered the victim's home in Drenthe and attacked him with a drill in front of his four-year-old daughter, Dutch publication De Telegraaf reported. The hour-long ordeal also involved the victim being threatened with firearms, before the perpetrators fled in an escape vehicle. The digital nature of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies mean long and complex passwords – or private keys – are required to access assets and transfer them to another digital wallet. Police did not reveal the identity of the victim but it is not believed any cryptocurrency was stolen during the raid. A spokesperson for Northern Netherlands Police told The Independent that the investigation is ongoing. It is not the first time criminals have targeted cryptocurrency investors and traders, with the earliest reported instance taking place in 2015. In February of that year, New York City firefighter Dwayne Richards was stabbed in Willamsburg, Brooklyn, by muggers who demanded he transferred bitcoin to their digital wallets. Cryptocurrency mystery deepens as $143m goes missing Bitcoin, which is currently worth around $3,800 (£2,800), is semi-anonymous and therefore difficult to trace to a single individual. Since its peak in late 2017, bitcoin has lost close to three quarters of its value, yet still remains an attractive prospect for criminals. In one of the most notable examples of criminals targeting holders of bitcoin, kidnappers in the Ukraine made more than $1 million in digital currency in 2017 after ransoming cryptocurrency analyst Pavel Lerner. The UK's first bitcoin heist took place in January last year, when armed robbers broke into the home of cryptocurrency trader Danny Aston in Moulsford, South Oxfordshire. Mr Aston was tied up during the home invasion and an unknown quantity of bitcoin was seized by the attackers. ================================================================================================ generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 050 ================================================================================================