Six alleged foreign "gangsters" wanted by police for reportedly extorting Russian for crypto currency

[snoop1130]

 

A group of alleged foreign “gangsters” was wanted by Samui Police on Monday, September 26th, after reportedly threatening and extorting a Russian man for crypto currency.

 

The officials began investigation following complaints of a Russian couple, Evgenii and Ekaterna, who claimed that they were approached and threatened by a group of six Russian, German, and Kazakh nationals while they were at a coffee shop on September 15th.

 

According to their statements, an alleged German suspect began to talk and make friends with Evgenii before threatening him to transfer three million USD in cryptocurrency, or about 112 million baht. However, Evgenii only had 58,000 USD cryptocurrency, so he, who was reportedly surrounded with the group of alleged gangsters, transferred 50,000 USD to the suspect, equivalent to 1.878 million baht.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/09/27/six-alleged-foreign-gangsters-including-russian-german-and-kazakh-nationals-wanted-by-samui-police-for-reportedly-extorting-russian-tourists-for-crypto-currency/

 

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[Andre0720]

Nah, Russian defectors. Just collecting to provide help to Ukraine.

[Iamfalang]

27 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

surrounded with the group of alleged gangsters, transferred 50,000 USD to the suspect, equivalent to 1.878 million baht.

just lock your phone.   I don't understand.  As we like to say, There's more to the story!!!!

 

How did he come up with 3 million USD.....How did he know they even had crypto......??

 

I'm confused. 

 

 

[webfact]

Russian mafia gang extort young Russian couple out of $50k at a local coffee shop on Ko Samui
by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

Ko Samui police interview Mr Evgenii Abdullin and his 31-year-old wife Ekaterina Abdullin at their favourite coffee shop in the Taling-ngam area of Ko Samui on Tuesday after Mr Evgenii filed a complaint concerning an incident there on the 15th September last when he was forced to pay over $50,000 in cryptocurrency funds to a gang of six men -who police are now investigating and are believed to be linked to the Russian mafia according to officers in Ko Samui and Surat Thani.

Mysterious exploits of a six-member gang including Russians, Kazakh nationals and a German have been tracked by police since Monday when the disturbing case was reported to Ko Samui Police Station. The gang is believed to have spent some time in Pattaya in Chonburi province before travelling to Ko Samui where they stayed in a hotel before and after confronting the Russian couple at a local café on the popular holiday island.

 

Police on Ko Samui are investigating the activities of a gang linked with the Russian mafia who extorted $50,000 from a young Russian couple on the island on Thursday, September 15th last while pursuing them after a menacing demand that $3 million be paid over to them in cryptocurrency funds. It is not quite clear what the basis for the ultimatum was or if any members of the gang are still in Thailand with at least two having left the country between September 17th and 20th last.

 

A Russian couple was threatened and had money extorted from their cryptocurrency accounts on September 15th last on Ko Samui before reporting the case to the local police on Monday after a six-member gang began following them and intimidating them seeking to have further funds transferred to them using Bybit, a Singapore based cryptocurrency exchange.

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/09/28/russian-gang-extort-couple-out-of-50k-evgenii-abdullin-ekaterina/

 

-- © Copyright Thai Examiner 2022-09-28

 

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[smedly]

clear as mud and a lot of mud

 

yes I was just innocently sitting having fish supper and these guys came in and demanded I pay them $50,000 

 

deport them all to Russia - Putin will provide them with a free holiday to Ukraine

[RichardColeman]

I bet this all boils down to the couple flaunting their life on social media in 'look what I have pictures' and being targeted for it. You do not go after people that maybe have no money. 

[SAFETY FIRST]

Naaah, fake news. 

 

I can't see anyone pointing. 

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

31-year-old wife Ekaterina

Wife looks tidy. 

 

Hot ????

[Jonathan Swift]

11 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

just lock your phone.   I don't understand.  As we like to say, There's more to the story!!!!

 

How did he come up with 3 million USD.....How did he know they even had crypto......??

 

I'm confused. 

 

 

Yes, you are confused. $50,000 was transferred, not 3 million

[ezzra]

24 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Wife looks tidy. 

 

Hot ????

Nevermind the story, i be happy to only  'extort' the wife....

[MrJ2U]

Very unusual.

 

Sounds more like a twisted deal gone bad.

 

Someone extorts money from you, especially on an island it would be easy to apprehend them at the Ferry or airport before absconding.

 

Russians always conniving. 

 

[Thomas KH]

Flaunting is always one's undoing.

[kcpattaya]

How come I do not believe ONE word of this fairytale?

[animatic]

Being too ‘publicly well to do’ is not a good plan.

Particularly when your home country is at war, leadership reeling, and some country men will do anything to not have to fly home to be drafted shortly, when their money runs out.

[shackleton]

Yes the question should be where did the people extorting the money  know of the Russian couples wealth  ????

How many more Russians or other nationalities   in Thailand could be exposed to this scam ???? 

 

[CLUBBER]

If ever a story screamed “there is much more to this story then what we are being told “ this is it !  

[cheapcanuck]

This story has more hole than a block of Swiss Cheese.

[Tropposurfer]

Russian women; botox'ed to the nines, huge fake eyelashes, plastered with so much makeup they look like some sort of character out of a Tim Burton movie, and as shallow, materialistic, grasping and climbing as you'll ever meet. 

 

[spidermike007]

Did Putin supply his gang with the information? Were hackers responsible for determining who had what? 

 

Or were the couple foolish enough to be bragging about their new found wealth somewhere? 

[Orinoco]

Sounds like debt collection to me.

 

[sjbrownderby]

Isn't it a little odd that they did not report the matter to the police until three days later when they received the second demand for money? By the time the BIB knew about it the gang had made themselves scarce. 

 

[Accidental Tourist]

Those are the "Special Tourist" Thailand is looking for...

[phetphet]

A coffee shop in Taling Ngam sounds a bit out of the way. On the quieter side of the island. Someone seems to have had plenty of information on them.

[Dave0206]

It says only had 58.000 so gang with big ❤️  only got 50.000 i think we should start a go fund me campaign all sounds feasible to me ????

[anyone]

Let's change the subject and talk to the simple-minded Brits

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[RafPinto]

Wait until it happens to those "thousands of Youtubers".
Some have to show off their whole life.
Tell their story about back home, the money they made, the house they build in Thailand etc.
Some make a whole house tour and show the security system etc.
Each trip they make is published.

Wait until their house is broken in and later, insurance says "NO".

 

Who needs to publish their whole life?
Probably they need some income to survive in Thailand and wait until someone wakes up and cracks down on them because they life in Thailand and work in Thailand, most without any work permit.

[sead]

Won't the Koh Samui maffia and police be <deleted> now?..

This place is ruled by these gangster families since long back

[LoveLayla]

In other news it says 112mln THB

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40020458

 

[Mickmouse1]

How would anyone gets to know I have pla pla in my bank account and that I can afford to pay such a big sum?

 

Give accurate details of the REAL STORY PLEASE.

[khunPer]

There might well be more to this incident than revealed in the news story...

 

From the article:

The duo operate a real estate business on the island and arrived last in Thailand earlier this year.
[...]
The men demanded that the couple pay them $3 million in cryptocurrency or the equivalent of ฿112.5 million but Mr Evgenii suggested that he did not have that amount of funds to hand.
[...]
Mr Abdullin told Ko Samui police that he agreed to pay over the money as he felt intimidated by the men and feared for his safety as well as that of his wife and family.