Bitcoin seized right on the street: three ex-police officers sentenced to up to 9 years in prison for a street robbery involving 9.6 BTC
Moscow’s Kuzminsky District Court sentenced three former police officers, finding them guilty of abuse of official authority, robbery, and extortion of cryptocurrency.
The incident took place on the night of July 19, 2023, on Privolnaya Street in Moscow. Officers from the Vykhino-Zhulebino district police department stopped a passerby under the pretext of checking him against a wanted-person alert, handcuffed him, and put him in a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV. After finding a crypto wallet on the detainee’s smartphone, the officers threatened him with criminal prosecution and forced him to transfer 9.6 BTC (worth about 26.2 million rubles at the time) to addresses they controlled.
The victim filed a complaint with the FSB only eight months after the incident, but investigators managed to bring the case to trial. In the end, Mikhail Rzhevsky, Vadim Ignatov, and Egor Aleksanov received prison sentences of 7.5 to 9 years.
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Moscow’s Kuzminsky District Court sentenced three former police officers, finding them guilty of abuse of official authority, robbery, and extortion of cryptocurrency.
The incident took place on the night of July 19, 2023, on Privolnaya Street in Moscow. Officers from the Vykhino-Zhulebino district police department stopped a passerby under the pretext of checking him against a wanted-person alert, handcuffed him, and put him in a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV. After finding a crypto wallet on the detainee’s smartphone, the officers threatened him with criminal prosecution and forced him to transfer 9.6 BTC (worth about 26.2 million rubles at the time) to addresses they controlled.
The victim filed a complaint with the FSB only eight months after the incident, but investigators managed to bring the case to trial. In the end, Mikhail Rzhevsky, Vadim Ignatov, and Egor Aleksanov received prison sentences of 7.5 to 9 years.
#bitcoin #crypto #moscow #CryptoCrime #BTC
