Russian arrested on Samui for allegedly robbing compatriot of ฿1.8m in Bitcoins

[webfact]

 

Thai police have arrested a Russian national on Samui Island on charges of robbing a fellow Russian of 1.8 million baht in Bitcoins.

 

Samui police say that the suspect is believed to be a member of a Russian gang, which has been preying on fellow citizens known to be engaged in Bitcoin investment businesses.

 

The victim, identified as Yevgini, filed a complaint with Samui police on Friday, claiming that he had been robbed by six Russians as he was having coffee with his wife at a shop in Taling Ngam sub-district.

 

Four Russians arrived at the coffee shop in a black van and were joined by two others, who arrived on a motorcycle. Yevgini alleges that the men approached him and threatened to harm him if he did not transfer his Bitcoins, estimated to be worth about 112 million baht, to them.

 

File Image (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-03-18

 

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[flyingtlger]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

Four Russians arrived at the coffee shop in a black van and were joined by two others, who arrived on a motorcycle.

Sounds like something out a James Bond movie.....

Edited March 17 by flyingtlger

[save the frogs]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

and threatened to harm him if he did not transfer his Bitcoins, estimated to be worth about 112 million baht,

how did they know he had all those bitcoins?

either he has a big mouth and was bragging about it or they were obtained in a mutual shady deal. 

[Celsius]

 

 

"Police say that the gang knew about the victim’s Bitcoinholding by monitoring the activities of Russian Bitcoin investors and their visits to Thailand."

 

Yea.....totally anonymous.

 

Wondering what other various crypto scams will this crypto rally uncover.

 

 

[ezzra]

Russians robbing other Russians, No skin off our nose...

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Samui police say that the suspect is believed to be a member of a Russian gang, which has been preying on fellow citizens known to be engaged in Bitcoin investment businesses.

Russians doing what they know best.

[newbee2022]

Well Thailand, you invited the Russians to come. Now fight with the devil. Good luck🙏

[rexpotter]

14 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Well Thailand, you invited the Russians to come. Now fight with the devil. Good luck🙏

Exactly, flush the toilet or pay forever.

[crazykopite]

This what happens when you give these people free visa’s ! Russians , Chinese are well known as crooks , fraudsters yet the government have opened the gates and invited them all in big big mistake you sow what you reap so these people turn up as the guy and his wife are having coffee just like that out of the blue I think there is a lot more to this story !

[john donson]

cctv?  

[Hamus Yaigh]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

filed a complaint with Samui police

 Lets hope the police came out of this with a profit as well as a laugh.

[Jone500]

You forget to full his lastname "Prigozhin"

[Hellfire]

1.8 mln baht  or 112 mln baht? Quite a difference

 

 

Edited March 18 by Hellfire

[NativeBob]

P2P crypto exchange went wrong.
Please, 4 guys from black van and 2 bikers, 112 m.baht )))

"But I only got 1.8 million" he said. 
Today's BTC price is 2,503,834 on Binance P2P so he "shared" about 0.6BTC or 50,000 USDT. 

Interesting story, ROFL

[KannikaP]

6 hours ago, crazykopite said:

you sow what you reap

Other way round makes sense.

[khaowong1]

What's that?  3 coins... (joking)

[Pouatchee]

On 3/18/2024 at 2:33 AM, flyingtlger said:

Sounds like something out a James Bond movie.....

 

i gotta be 1st, i gotta be 1st, i gotta be 1st, then i gotta write a 1 line meaningless comment... oh no! i just missed being 1st!!!!