================================================================================================ CASE 142 | Russian Businessman | December 1, 2022 | Russia ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 142 date December 1, 2022 original_date December 1, 2022 year 2022 month 12 quarter 2022-Q4 victim Russian Businessman location Moscow, Russia country Russia scenario Kidnapping description Man kidnapped from his Bentley by 4 men, forced to give access to bitcoin wallet. kidnappings 1 violence_torture 0 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 1 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted (null) coin_type (null) reports Vuink notes took from car, stole 250btc from the wallet on his phone, dfropped outside of the city 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:** Russian Businessman **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators **Attack Method:** Kidnapping for ransom **Violence Used:** Threats/intimidation **Crypto Stolen:** Amount not disclosed **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://vuink.com/post/eg-d-dpbz/russia/567577-bitcoin-kidnapping-moscow-police NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 143: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source Vuink URL https://vuink.com/post/eg-d-dpbz/russia/567577-bitcoin-kidnapping-moscow-police Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 143, column "Articles" Length 1,067 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bitcoin millionaire kidnapped from his Bentley in Moscow submited by Style Pass Sat, Dec 3, 2022 05:00 A Russian businessman has made a statement to police, claiming that masked men kidnapped him from his luxury car and intimidated him into revealing the key to his digital wallet with 250 bitcoins (around $17 million) on it, a law enforcement source has said. The victim told the officers that the incident happened in Moscow on Thursday, with the perpetrators jumping out of a van, apprehending him, putting a bag on his head and driving him to an unknown location, a source who talked to RIA-Novosti news agency revealed. "According to the claimant, the criminals took his mobile phone, on which an app was allegedly installed, allowing access to the so-called digital wallet. On it, there were 250 bitcoins. The attackers forced the man to reveal the password to this wallet," he said. After the perpetrators got what they wanted, they dropped the man off in woods not far from the town of Krasnogorsk, near the northwestern boundary of Moscow, the source said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 vuink.com URL https://vuink.com/post/eg-d-dpbz/russia/567577-bitcoin-kidnapping-moscow-police Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:51:43+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200) Language unknown Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 4-7 of 19 Length 1,036 chars Integrity sha256 3bae44ac58a340f4aed1de0b400fee25f0a76633b7ba196cf373aafd4947d24c Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 4-7 plus headline [0]; dropped 3 leading and 11 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 12. 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 millionaire kidnapped from his Bentley in Moscow | Vuink.com A Russian businessman has made a statement to police, claiming that masked men kidnapped him from his luxury car and intimidated him into revealing the key to his digital wallet with 250 bitcoins (around $17 million) on it, a law enforcement source has said. The victim told the officers that the incident happened in Moscow on Thursday, with the perpetrators jumping out of a van, apprehending him, putting a bag on his head and driving him to an unknown location, a source who talked to RIA-Novosti news agency revealed. "According to the claimant, the criminals took his mobile phone, on which an app was allegedly installed, allowing access to the so-called digital wallet. On it, there were 250 bitcoins. The attackers forced the man to reveal the password to this wallet," he said. After the perpetrators got what they wanted, they dropped the man off in woods not far from the town of Krasnogorsk, near the northwestern boundary of Moscow, the source said. ================================================================================================ generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 142 ================================================================================================