A resident of St. Petersburg was forcibly taken to the forest and forced to hand over 5.5 million rubles in cryptocurrency. On the evening of October 15, on Narodnaya Street, a 24-year-old man was seized by unknown masked men and taken to the forest in a Toyota Camry car. There he had to transfer 70 thousand dollars. But the cryptocurrency transaction attracted the attention of the police: at night the car was stopped by the Russian guards on Sverdlovsk embankment. Soon five more alleged participants in the kidnapping were arrested, including a 24-year-old student. During the searches, phones, a laptop and more than 10 million rubles in cash were found. The student was placed under house arrest, the rest were placed under arrest. Read us at MAX! | Call us on Telegram.