How the crypto rich got caught up in a new crime wave
It began like a scene from a Hollywood heist.
Dressed in painters’ overalls and high-vis vests, a group of men slipped into the stairwell of an apartment building in the Old Town of Estonia’s capital, Tallinn. Their target was Australian tech billionaire Tim Heath, a pioneer of crypto-based online gambling and founder of the Yolo Group. But this wasn’t a robbery – the men were there to take Heath.
Crypto billionaire Tim Heath was the victim of an attempted abduction in Estonia.Credit: Yolo Group
According to Estonian prosecutors, the gang had stalked Heath for months, even planting a GPS tracker on his car. When they struck on July 29 last year – just days before the grand…
