Russian police catch responsible for crypto scam
The authorities of the Russian Interior Ministry arrested the alleged culprit in the case of fraud in cryptocurrencies of Kazakhstan
Authorities in the Russian Ministry of the Interior (MOI) issued a statement on the arrest of the alleged anonymous person responsible for a cryptocurrency scam in Kasajstán.
The detainee is accused of committing fraud against a group of investors after promising high returns for digital currency transactions in the country. The report of the case indicates that the intruder was wanted by Interpol since the beginning of the year.
When the arrest was carried out, the citizen confessed that he had ilegally crossed the Russian border on horseback. The authorities are currently carrying out the procedures for the extradition of criminals to Kazakhstan.
It is a group of criminals that operates in this form of fraud. In this regard, the MOI has declared that there are around 300 cases of fraud “allegedly related to the scam, in which one of the investors would have lost about 14 million tenge Kazakhs (USD 36,700) at the hands of the criminals.”
In the United States, as well as in other countries in the Americas, several similar cases have been reported with robberies that involve millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies, particularly in bitcoins.
M.Pino
Source: Cointelegraph