================================================================================================ CASE 035 | Unidentified | February 23, 2018 | Russia ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 35 date February 23, 2018 original_date February 23, 2018 year 2018 month 2 quarter 2018-Q1 victim Unidentified location Moscow, Russia country Russia scenario Assault - Mugging description Crypto investor has face mutilated, robbed of $1M in BTC kidnappings 0 violence_torture 1 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 1 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted (null) coin_type (null) reports CT notes they mutilated his face with a knife has_processed_date 1 created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45 AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources] **Victim:** Unidentified **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators **Attack Method:** Assault - Mugging **Violence Used:** Severe mutilation **Crypto Stolen:** Approximately $1 million **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://cointelegraph.com/news/moscow-man-mutilated-and-mugged-for-1-million-in-bitcoin-local-sources-report NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 36: exact date + country, unique candidate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source CT URL https://cointelegraph.com/news/moscow-man-mutilated-and-mugged-for-1-million-in-bitcoin-local-sources-report Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 36, column "Articles" Length 771 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Moscow Man Mutilated And Mugged For $1 Million In Bitcoin, Local Sources Report A man has lost $1 mln worth of Bitcoin to muggers who attacked him when he refused to part with it, local sources report A cryptocurrency investor fell victim to unidentified assailants in Moscow who reportedly disfigured him and stole over $1 mln worth of Bitcoin, today, Feb. 23, according to local crypto journal Forklog. According to Forklog, the victim, who has not been named, was in the southern district of the Russian capital when a group of muggers stopped him and demanded he transfer his holdings. When he refused, they “mutilated his face with a knife” before he surrendered his collection of around 100 BTC, approximately $1,020,000 at press time, according to the publication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [RAW EXTRACT — NOT YET TRIMMED] !! This is the whole page as extracted. It still contains site furniture, !! and may contain teaser headlines for UNRELATED cases. Trim on read-through. !! Do not quote from it without checking the passage belongs to this case. Source cointelegraph.com URL https://cointelegraph.com/news/moscow-man-mutilated-and-mugged-for-1-million-in-bitcoin-local-sources-report Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:55:59+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200) Language unknown Kept paragraphs ALL 13 paragraphs, untrimmed Length 2,123 chars Integrity sha256 8db41c293852c7ba4600d464dcaa0bf17cf335cb9f532ba271d30aa678081e43 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) Moscow Man Mutilated And Mugged For $1 Million In Bitcoin, Local Sources Report Written by William Subergstaff writerReviewed by Igor Belkinformer editor A man has lost $1 mln worth of Bitcoin to muggers who attacked him when he refused to part with it, local sources report A cryptocurrency investor fell victim to unidentified assailants in Moscow who reportedly disfigured him and stole over $1 mln worth of Bitcoin, today, Feb. 23, according to local crypto journal Forklog. According to Forklog, the victim, who has not been named, was in the southern district of the Russian capital when a group of muggers stopped him and demanded he transfer his holdings. When he refused, they “mutilated his face with a knife” before he surrendered his collection of around 100 BTC, approximately $1,020,000 at press time, according to the publication. The incident comes just weeks after robbers targeted a well-known YouTube blogger in St. Petersburg, assaulting him and stealing possessions including funds worth $425,000 from a safe. The unknown Moscow victim is currently receiving medical attention while police attempt to ascertain the sequence of events, according to Forklog. Security issues surrounding ownership of and even interaction with cryptocurrency continues to fall under the spotlight in both Russia and neighboring states. The Ukrainian Security Service raid of the Odessa office of Forklog itself in December 2017 highlighted the potential for even authorities to indulge in criminal activity, while the abduction of EXMO exchange CEO Pavel Lerner in Kiev in December only ended after payment of a $1 mln ransom. 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