StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1
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Second and third rounds on the dossier pipeline, reviewed locally before commit. Retrieval - wayback_pass.py: retries every BLOCKED/DEAD/THIN/ERROR linked source through the Wayback Machine; blocks carry the snapshot date, archive URL and the live verdict. 143 slots retried: 93 fetched, 37 no snapshot, 12 script shells, 1 PDF. - fetch_sources.py: fetch_wayback() helper. - add_extra_sources.py: files staged extra_* finds (web search, not on the DB record) into the store with a provenance note. - Cases re-sourced by web search: 248 (Oslo: Document.no, Avisa Oslo, NRK; the linked Le Parisien piece is case 242 and is marked OFF-CASE), 258 Kharkiv, 260 Singapore, 358 Bangkok, 365 Las Vegas, 388 Verneuil-sur-Seine, 390 Zoersel, 430 Homestead. 341 of 364 cases now hold a fetched article; 11, 66 and 399 have no public text source (podcast, police video, direct victim report). Trimming - auto_trim.py: case-anchored furniture cut for UNTRIMMED blocks. Finds the body run that mentions the case, merges across subheadings and short furniture gaps, drops teasers, share bars, date/URL/caption lines and subscription pitches; refuses pages with no record term or almost no body. 302 blocks trimmed; 16 left on auto-trim-review.md (7 OFF-CASE suspects). Every cut is labelled AUTO-TRIMMED, UNREVIEWED in the dossier; the full extract stays in staging/. Decisions with anchors in trim-decisions-auto.json. - build_cases.py / verify_all.py: banners for auto-trimmed and archived blocks, staged-file check extended to Wayback blocks, flag legend under the record. Detention rule - README "Definitions": the DB field `kidnappings` is the DETENTION violence type (victim, guard, staff or relative held to force submission or execute the theft), distinct from the Kidnapping scenario (taken away and held). - detention-flag-review.md / detention-flag-corrections.json: 40 records reviewed with evidence; 30 set-to-1 proposals accepted by the owner on 2026-09-06 (listed in corrections-approved.md), 10 still open. - apply_detention_wording.py: "Violence Used" in the 70 reviewed summaries now names detention explicitly (62 of 70 labelled), supported by the summary's own text; idempotent; supersedes the batch scripts' wording. Worklist and docs - sofia-worklist.md: 248 decisions, detention rule item replacing the old "no abduction" item, fresh-search section for the textless cases. - README-START-HERE.md: progress notes, run commands, next steps. - Bug fixed in passing: Wayback blocks stored in-memory text with carriage returns; now stored as read back from disk. verify_all.py PASSES (2321 checks). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
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CASE 070 | Unidentified | October 1, 2020 | Ukraine
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DATABASE RECORD
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id 70
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date October 1, 2020
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original_date October 1, 2020
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year 2020
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month 10
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quarter 2020-Q4
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victim Unidentified
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location Kyiv, Ukraine
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country Ukraine
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scenario Authority Misuse
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description Police kidnap a businessman, torture him, and force his wife to send them 7 bitcoin.
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kidnappings 1
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violence_torture 1
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drugs_alcohol 0
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weapons 1
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theft 1
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life_taken 0
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money_wanted 7 BTC
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coin_type BTC
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reports Bastion, Forklog, FB
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notes they kidnapped him from a pub, took his phone, laptop and tortured him to then call his wife for ransom
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has_processed_date 1
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created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45
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(flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against
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their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the
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same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.)
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AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
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**Victim:** Unidentified
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**Attackers:** Individuals misusing authority
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**Attack Method:** Authority Misuse - victim kidnapped
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**Violence Used:** Torture
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**Crypto Stolen:** 7 BTC in BTC
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**Status:** Investigation ongoing
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LINKED SOURCES
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[url] https://forklog.com/en/three-sbu-officers-face-charges-over-kidnapping-of-a-businessman-and-extortion-of-7-btc/
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NOTES ON THIS FILE
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* matched to sheet row 71: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides
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ARTICLE 1
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Source Bastion, Forklog, FB
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URL https://forklog.com/en/three-sbu-officers-face-charges-over-kidnapping-of-a-businessman-and-extortion-of-7-btc/
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 71, column "Articles"
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Length 3,578 chars
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Heads of the SBU Cyber Department kidnapped and took a businessman to the forest, tortured him, and forced him to hand over 7 Bitcoins ($80,000): they have been charged
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Leaders of the Cyber Department of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU)—the deputy head of the department and the head of a division—along with an operative, have been charged with cryptocurrency theft, robbery combined with violence, kidnapping, and abuse of official powers. They are currently suspended from their positions.
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According to information from Police Control Ukraine and a ruling by the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv dated August 28, 2021, the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) established the involvement of these SBU Cyber Department employees in the illegal seizure of funds from a businessman engaged in cryptocurrency trading on exchanges.
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Possessing reliable information that the entrepreneur held significant funds, the involved SBU officers actually formed a criminal group from the SBU leadership. They decided to steal the man's cryptocurrency by using force and abducted him.
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On October 1, 2020, around 14:42 in Kyiv, near a PUB building on Mykhailivska Street, the serving SBU officers approached the businessman, used physical force, and forcibly pushed him into a Volkswagen T5 car.
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While unlawfully holding the businessman on the car floor, the officers took the apartment keys and his iPhone. Two officers went to the apartment while others continued holding the man in the vehicle. To get the phone passwords, the officers intimidated and threatened him with violence.
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Meanwhile, two SBU officers used the stolen keys to enter the apartment, stole two laptops and a tablet, and calmly returned to the car.
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Afterward, the businessman was taken to a forest near Parkova Road in Kyiv and held near the car. The SBU agents tortured him by inflicting multiple injuries with blunt hard objects for one and a half hours.
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One SBU officer then illegally demanded $200,000, which the businessman refused. The man was then taken to the Shevchenkivskyi Police Department in Kyiv, where he was held without formal arrest or detention documentation.
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Continuing illegal detention, the officers demanded $80,000. The businessman agreed and called his wife, who transferred 7 Bitcoins (BTC) from her digital wallet to the accounts specified by the SBU officers. At the time of the transaction, this was equivalent to $80,000 USD.
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Later that day, the senior officer wrote a report about detaining the man at Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv at 23:30 as a person wanted for extradition to the Russian Federation. The man was then handed over to the Shevchenkivskyi Police Department.
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At the end of August, the SBU Cyber Department employees were notified of suspicion under multiple articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, including theft, robbery with violence, abuse of office, kidnapping, and forgery.
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Specifically, the charges were brought against:
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Deputy head of the 1st division of the Department for Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in Information Security of the SBU,
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Head of the Counterintelligence Protection Department for State Interests of the SBU in Sumy region,
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Senior operative of the 3rd division of the 1st department of the same counterintelligence department.
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During investigation, the involvement of eight SBU officers is being examined in total.
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In February of this year, the DBR conducted searches at the residences of the suspects.
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Currently, the relevant SBU officers have been placed under house arrest and suspended from their positions.
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ARTICLE 2
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Source Bastion, Forklog, FB
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URL (no URL recorded for this column)
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 71, column "Article 2"
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Length 2,410 chars
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Three SBU officers face charges over kidnapping of a businessman and extortion of 7 BTC
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The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine has established the involvement of three officers of the Cyber Department of the Security Service (SBU) in the kidnapping of a cryptocurrency trader and the theft of money from him. This is reported in the ruling of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv.
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According to the investigation, in autumn 2020, senior management of the SBU received information that the entrepreneur had a large amount of cryptocurrency.
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In broad daylight on 1 October 2020 in Kyiv, outside a pub on Mykhailivska Street, security forces approached the businessman and shoved him into a Volkswagen T5. In the car they took the victim’s mobile phone and keys to the apartment, from which two laptops and a tablet were subsequently removed.
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Then they brought the trader to a forest near Parkova Road and, for about an hour and a half, beat him inside the car and demanded to hand over $200 000. After the refusal, the security forces transported the kidnapped person to the Shevchenkivske Police Department.
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There they continued to extort funds, lowering the amount to $80 000. The businessman agreed and called his wife, who transferred 7 BTC (at the time equivalent to the ransom) to the cryptocurrency wallet indicated by the security forces.
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After this, one of the SBU officers filed a report stating that the entrepreneur had allegedly been detained by them late on 1 October as a person wanted for extradition at the request of the Russian Federation.
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According to the State Bureau of Investigation, the criminal group included:
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Deputy Head of the First Directorate of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Information Security sphere of the SBU;
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Head of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Information Security sphere of the SBU’s Sumy Region Directorate;
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Senior operative of the 3rd Department of the 1st Directorate of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Information Security sphere of the SBU.
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They were charged with theft of cryptocurrency, robbery with violence, kidnapping, and abuse of office.
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All three suspects were placed under house arrest. They have been suspended from their posts.
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The investigation is also examining the involvement of eight more SBU employees.
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ARTICLE 3
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Source Bastion, Forklog, FB
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URL (no URL recorded for this column)
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 71, column "Article 3"
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Length 2,001 chars
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Heads of the SBU cyber department kidnapped and took the entrepreneur to the forest, tortured and forced to give up 7 bitcoins
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The Police Control Ukraine project writes that law enforcement officers have been suspected of the fact of theft of cryptocurrency, robbery, linked with violence, kidnapping and exceeding official powers. They are currently removed from office.
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On October 1, 2020 right in the center of Kyiv on the street mikhailivs ціkíj, the staff of the sbu ran to the entrepreneur and pushed him to the salon of the car "Volkswagen T5".
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SBUšniki took his apartment keys and iPhone. After that, two sbušnikív headed to the apartment, and the others continued to keep the man in the car. Through threats, special forces received passwords from the phone.
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In the apartment, the employees of the world's best intelligence services took two laptops and a tablet.
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The entrepreneur was then brought to the woods near the Park Road in the city of Kyiv For 1.5 hours, he was beaten with dumb hard objects.
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Later, one of the SBU workers began to demand 200 thousand dollars. The entrepreneur refused, so he was taken to the Shevchenko Police Department in Kyiv There he was held without fixing the fact of arrest or detention.
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Later, the businessman was asked for $80,000. He agreed and called his wife. From her electronic wallet, she transferred the details of 7 bitcoins (BTC), which as of the day and time of the transaction cost $ 80,000.
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Subsequently, a senior officer from the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of the State Interests in the field of information security of the SB of Ukraine Volkov B.C. compiled a report on the arrest of a man on Independence Square in Kyiv as a wanted person and in need of extradition to Russia. Later, the man was transferred to the Shevchenko Police Department. How he ended up free is still unclear.
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This is such an eloquent story about law enforcers who are still found in the highly reformed police and the Security Service of Ukraine.
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FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED]
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!! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person.
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!! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article.
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!! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting.
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Source forklog.com
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URL https://forklog.com/en/three-sbu-officers-face-charges-over-kidnapping-of-a-businessman-and-extortion-of-7-btc/
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Field url
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Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:54:26+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200)
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Language unknown
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Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 1-17 of 29
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Length 2,747 chars
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Integrity sha256 7e986fa113323950203125a5a0ade110accd47bfe1838b326370bb7b3f0aac1a
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Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 1-17 plus headline [0]; dropped 0 leading and 11 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 11.
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Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
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from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
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Three SBU officers face charges over kidnapping of a businessman and extortion of 7 BTC | ForkLog
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The iconic magazine about Bitcoin, blockchain technology and the digital economy.
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AI translated#Crimes#Intelligence Agencies#Law Enforcement#Ukraine
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Three SBU officers face charges over kidnapping of a businessman and extortion of 7 BTC
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The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine has established the involvement of three officers of the Cyber Department of the Security Service (SBU) in the kidnapping of a cryptocurrency trader and the theft of money from him. This is reported in the ruling of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv.
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According to the investigation, in autumn 2020, senior management of the SBU received information that the entrepreneur had a large amount of cryptocurrency.
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In broad daylight on 1 October 2020 in Kyiv, outside a pub on Mykhailivska Street, security forces approached the businessman and shoved him into a Volkswagen T5. In the car they took the victim’s mobile phone and keys to the apartment, from which two laptops and a tablet were subsequently removed.
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Then they brought the trader to a forest near Parkova Road and, for about an hour and a half, beat him inside the car and demanded to hand over $200 000. After the refusal, the security forces transported the kidnapped person to the Shevchenkivske Police Department.
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There they continued to extort funds, lowering the amount to $80 000. The businessman agreed and called his wife, who transferred 7 BTC (at the time equivalent to the ransom) to the cryptocurrency wallet indicated by the security forces.
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After this, one of the SBU officers filed a report stating that the entrepreneur had allegedly been detained by them late on 1 October as a person wanted for extradition at the request of the Russian Federation.
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According to the State Bureau of Investigation, the criminal group included:
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Deputy Head of the First Directorate of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Information Security sphere of the SBU;
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Head of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Information Security sphere of the SBU’s Sumy Region Directorate;
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Senior operative of the 3rd Department of the 1st Directorate of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Information Security sphere of the SBU.
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They were charged with theft of cryptocurrency, robbery with violence, kidnapping, and abuse of office.
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All three suspects were placed under house arrest. They have been suspended from their posts.
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The investigation is also examining the involvement of eight more SBU employees.
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Earlier in July, a Ukrainian blogger staged her kidnapping for a ransom of 5 BTC.
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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 070
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