Cryptocurrencies: five arrests after a very violent abduction
The case involves the father of an influencer specializing in cryptocurrencies according to the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecution while recently,other suspects of an attempted abduction in Paris were arrested.
An abduction of incredible violence
In a press release on Saturday June 21, 2025, the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor, Karine Malara, details that these “Five individuals” were placed in pre -trial detention on Friday to “kidnapping” And “aggravated violence”.
The facts date back to December 31, 2024 in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, near the Swiss border. Armed men kidnapped a couple at their home to claim a ransom from their son, an influencer “Known to the general public” who lives in Dubai according to the prosecution.
Faced with the refusal of payment, the individuals then removed the father who was found, a few hours later, in a car trunk in the Sarthe by the Mans police officers, nearly 700 kilometers.
The arrest concerns four major individuals, aged between 18 and 22, and a 17 -year -old minor, arrested in Sarthe and the Yvelines. All were indicted this Friday to “armed robbery”,, “Extoming, removal, forcible confinement” And “aggravated violence”all “In organized gang”before their placement in pre -trial detention.
The father of the 56 -year -old influencer was “Speed up, sprayed with petrol and transported in the trunk of a car, in the absence of payment” ransom according to the prosecutor. The mother was found at the home of Saint-Genis-Pouilly, tied up.
Their son headed a cryptocurrency company “To the known social success of the general public” according to the authorities. The influencer is identified as based in Dubai and very regularly publishing his huge cryptocurrency gains on social networks.
Three of the major incarcerated individuals are already known to justice: violence, theft, drug trafficking or cryptocurrencies, weapons detention. The minor was already appearing for aggravated flight.
“In the state of the investigation, no link has been established with other cases of kidnappings linked to the cryptocurrency sector, but the investigating judge’s investigations are continuing”concludes Karine Malara.
