SofiaandClaude Opus 4.8
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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
111 lines
10 KiB
Python
111 lines
10 KiB
Python
import json, io, sys
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sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
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PATH = __file__[:__file__.rfind("build_overrides")] + "summary-overrides.json"
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existing = {}
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try:
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existing = json.load(open(PATH, encoding="utf-8"))
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except Exception:
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existing = {}
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def s(*cats):
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return "\n\n".join(cats)
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B = {}
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B["372"] = s(
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"**Victims:** A woman identified only by the initials \"A.T.\", in Barrie, Ontario.",
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"**Attackers:** Several assailants; the number is not recorded. All were caught.",
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"**Attack Method:** She was kidnapped and tied to a chair while her captors demanded a $1 million bitcoin ransom.",
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"**Violence Used:** She was stripped naked, struck in the legs with a hammer, and burned.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** $1 million in bitcoin was demanded; the record indicates no cryptocurrency was handed over.",
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"**Status:** She escaped, and the attackers were arrested.",
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)
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B["371"] = s(
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"**Victims:** A Chinese businessman (referred to only as \"K\") who ran contract nickel-mining operations in the Philippines. He was the only known survivor among more than 100 kidnappings, most of them targeting Chinese nationals, recorded in the country that year.",
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"**Attackers:** A mixed crew of local Filipino kidnappers working with a Chinese criminal syndicate led by a man known as \"Andy Lau\" and a woman known as \"Li Na\", acting on a tip from the victim's own bodyguard-driver, who had sold him out after judging him wealthy from a lavish company truck-launch event.",
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"**Attack Method:** On the morning of 12 December 2022 the bodyguard let the crew ambush the car just after it left the compound; two men in construction-worker uniforms forced their way in, hooded and handcuffed him, and switched vehicles. He was held blindfolded for six days, 12-18 December, and never saw his captors' faces.",
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"**Violence Used:** Stun guns, heated coils and burns, and a knife drawn across his chest, concentrated in the first two days; he later needed two surgeries for burns and shackle wounds. He stayed deliberately compliant to limit the abuse.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The captors opened at US$100 million and were negotiated down through US$50M and US$20M to a final figure. His wife withdrew cash under police escort and, inside a Manila casino the gang used to launder money, converted it to USDT (Tether) and transferred it to the kidnappers.",
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"**Status:** He was released in a remote field in Cavite on the sixth day and reunited with his wife and police. The bodyguard was arrested the following May and gave up the ring's number two; \"Andy Lau\" and others were later detained. Key suspects remain in custody with sentencing pending.",
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)
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B["370"] = s(
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"**Victims:** A family in Port Moody, British Columbia \u2014 a father who was a Bitcoin holder and had discussed his holdings within the local Chinese community, his wife, and their daughter.",
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"**Attackers:** Four men; two first posed as Canada Post workers delivering a parcel, with two more joining once inside. One of them, Tsz Wing Boaz Chan, was later convicted.",
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"**Attack Method:** On 27-28 April 2024 the fake couriers got the father to open the door, forced their way in and locked it, then bound all three family members with zip ties over about 13 hours while demanding access to his cryptocurrency.",
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"**Violence Used:** Both parents were subjected to waterboarding and threatened with mutilation; the daughter was forced to undress, be filmed and repeat sexual phrases, and was sexually assaulted by one of the attackers.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The gang first demanded 200 BTC, then lowered it to 100 BTC, and ultimately transferred about US$1.6 million in cryptocurrency before fleeing.",
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"**Status:** After the captives were wrapped in blankets and a door was closed, the daughter freed herself, escaped, and called 911. Tsz Wing Boaz Chan pleaded guilty to break-and-enter, unlawful confinement and sexual assault and was sentenced to seven years; the court described the case as one of Canada's most serious \"wrench attacks\". Details on the other suspects have not been released.",
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)
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B["369"] = s(
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"**Victims:** Quentin Cepeljac, a Belgian barber, lured to London.",
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"**Attackers:** A gang (number not recorded) that rented an Airbnb to stage the trap \u2014 a mistake that led to their quick arrest.",
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"**Attack Method:** Cepeljac had bragged about being a successful crypto dealer to impress a woman; she invited him to what he took to be her luxury flat, which turned out to be a bedsit set up as a trap.",
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"**Violence Used:** He was tortured and threatened.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The gang expected around \u00a3500,000 in crypto, but he in fact held only \u00a36.71; they settled for about \u00a32,000 taken from his bank account.",
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"**Status:** Because the attackers had rented the Airbnb used for the trap, they were quickly identified and caught.",
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)
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B["368"] = s(
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"**Victims:** Gabriel Di Noto, 54, an accountant and former Central Bank inspector and deputy manager of Banco de C\u00f3rdoba who latterly advised on crypto trading, in Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina. His 85-year-old father lived in the same cabin complex, which Di Noto owned.",
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"**Attackers:** A group who arrived by motorcycle overnight, aided by a woman whom investigators believe Di Noto had met on Tinder and who opened the door to them before fleeing with them \u2014 all captured on security cameras.",
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"**Attack Method:** The intruders broke into his home in the early hours, beat him, and forced access to his finances, then went on to rob his elderly father's house. Fleeing, they took Di Noto's car, leading his father to think he had been kidnapped.",
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"**Violence Used:** He was left tied and gagged. According to the family's lawyer, a preliminary hypothesis — with the full autopsy results still sealed — is that he was not killed by blows, a firearm or a blade; a deeper toxicology examination was under way into whether a heart attack or an ingested substance caused his death.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The attackers emptied his accounts and took out large fraudulent loans in his name, moving the money to their own accounts; no single figure is recorded.",
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"**Status:** Di Noto was found dead, tied and gagged, inside one of his cabins. The investigation was continuing, with autopsy results pending; a woman was seen on security cameras leaving with the attackers.",
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)
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B["367"] = s(
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"**Victims:** A 35-year-old man in Sofia, Bulgaria.",
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"**Attackers:** Two men posing as police officers; both were arrested about two months later.",
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"**Attack Method:** The pair abducted him and drove him around while holding a gun to his head for about an hour, demanding he transfer 14 bitcoin within 24 hours.",
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"**Violence Used:** He was held at gunpoint throughout.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They demanded 14 bitcoin but obtained none; they did take four of his debit cards.",
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"**Status:** The victim was released, and the two men were arrested two months later.",
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)
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B["365"] = s(
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"**Victims:** An unidentified man who had been hosting a cryptocurrency event at a business earlier that evening.",
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"**Attackers:** Three teenagers, with a possible fourth person directing them by phone.",
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"**Attack Method:** As he returned home, the three approached him and forced him into a car at gunpoint, then drove him to a remote desert area about an hour outside the city.",
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"**Violence Used:** He was held at gunpoint.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They took about $4 million in cryptocurrency and NFTs.",
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"**Status:** The investigation was continuing; no arrests are recorded here.",
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)
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B["364"] = s(
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"**Victims:** An undisclosed man in central Limassol, Cyprus, who had arranged to buy cryptocurrency in person.",
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"**Attackers:** Two men who set up the meeting \u2014 one carried out the robbery while the other kept watch. A 31-year-old was arrested; the man who fled with the cash was still being sought.",
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"**Attack Method:** On Christmas Eve 2024 the victim came to a noon meeting carrying \u20ac100,000 in cash to buy crypto; as he waited in his car, one man ran up, struck him about the face, grabbed the backpack of cash, and fled on foot.",
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"**Violence Used:** He was hit across the head and face in the daylight robbery.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency changed hands; the robbers took \u20ac100,000 in cash.",
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"**Status:** The victim detained the lookout until police arrived, leading to the 31-year-old's arrest; Limassol CID was interviewing witnesses and pursuing the second suspect and possible accomplices.",
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)
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B["362"] = s(
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"**Victims:** A mother and her two children in Val-de-Marne, France; the intended target was her husband, an independent cryptocurrency investor.",
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"**Attackers:** Two masked individuals.",
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"**Attack Method:** On a Tuesday afternoon around 1 October 2025 the two masked men approached the mother and children and handed her a mobile phone \u2014 a Samsung with a prepaid SIM \u2014 to pass to her husband, threatening to harm the family if he did not answer the calls.",
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"**Violence Used:** Threats to harm the family; no physical violence was reported.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** Nothing was taken; the phone was intended to open an extortion demand against the crypto-investor husband.",
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"**Status:** When the husband returned home his wife gave him the phone, which rang four times; instead of answering he went to the police, handed the phone to investigators, and local police placed the home under surveillance.",
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)
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B["353"] = s(
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"**Victims:** The operators of a cryptocurrency mining farm running on the warehouse premises of the VkusVill retail chain in the village of Kuchino, near Moscow; the on-site guards were also targeted.",
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"**Attackers:** Four unknown masked men.",
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"**Attack Method:** In July 2022 the four entered the warehouse, threatened the guards with weapons and handcuffed them, then cleared out the equipment.",
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"**Violence Used:** The guards were threatened with weapons and handcuffed; no injuries were reported.",
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"**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They took four containers holding 100 graphics cards (mining hardware) and also stole the surveillance-recording storage to cover their tracks.",
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"**Status:** Police were searching for the perpetrators, who face up to 12 years in prison.",
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)
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existing.update(B)
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json.dump(existing, open(PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8"), ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
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print("wrote", len(B), "summaries; file now has", len(existing), "entries")
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for k in sorted(B, key=int):
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print(f" {k}: {len(B[k])} chars")
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