France charges 25 suspects in crypto abduction cases
Twenty-five people, including six minors, were charged in Paris over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions in France’s cryptocurrency world, said the city’s public prosecutor office on Saturday, May 31.
“Eighteen people have been placed in pre-trial detention, three have requested a deferred hearing and four have been placed under judicial supervision,” the public prosecutor said, with the suspects between 16 and 23 years old.
The investigation centers on a May 13 kidnapping attempt targeting the daughter and grandson of the chief executive officer of crypto firm Paymium, carried out in broad daylight in Paris’ 11th arrondissement.
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