Father of crypto-millionaire kidnapped for nearly $8M ransom
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The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was traced to an address in the Paris suburb of Essonne, which police raided late on Saturday, the prosecutors’ office said in a statement.
He had been abducted in Paris’s southern 14th arrondissement mid-morning on Thursday.
One police officer, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said four men wearing ski masks had bundled him into a delivery van.
“The victim appears to be the father of a man who made his fortune in cryptocurrencies, with the crime involving a ransom demand,” the prosecutors’ statement said.
Le Parisien newspaper reported that the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of between five million and seven million…
