The recent wave of kidnappings and attempted kidnappings of cryptocurrency holders, particularly in France, has led authorities to arrest more than 20 people involved in these cases.

A meeting between law enforcement authorities and crypto industry players, attended by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, shed light on the details of clearly gruesome cases in which the victim was mutilated, and a ransom demanded in cryptocurrency.

Among the decisions, emerging from this meeting, is “security training for cryptocurrency professionals and their families by elite gendarmerie and police units.”

On the other hand, the creation of a work program that helps structurally improve the safety level of industry professionals.

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The Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are expensive and criminals know it. Two men were recently arrested in Japan for a theft amounting to USD 33,000 in these entertainment cards.

Those involved in the incident are Sora Takashino and Kanta Sanmi, two Japanese men, who tried to steal the cards from the popular franchise.

This is an incident that occurred on March 13 in the town of Akihabara, Japan. As the events have been described, “one of the 22-year-old men entered the Fukufuku store”, specializing in collectible cards. “He asked to see an expensive letter outside the display case, and that’s when he tried to escape.”

Officers from Investigation Division 3 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department foiled the criminal act and managed to arrest those involved in the attempted theft of one of the “rarest and most sought-after cards in the franchise: the Blue-Eyes White Dragon”, which was offered in Fukufuku in exchange for YSD 33,000.

The subject who tried to steal the card argued that he decided to commit the crime because he needed money to cover his basic and entertainment needs. His accomplice, who was waiting for him in a vehicle to escape from the scene, defended himself by saying that he did not know his friend’s intentions.

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