Crypto Kidnapping: Tourist Held Captive, Forced to Transfer $250K in USDT

A 23-year-old Ukrainian tourist in Phuket, Thailand, was kidnapped and forced to transfer $250,000 in USDT stablecoins (about 8.56 million baht) to two armed robbers. Viacheslav Leibov was threatened with violence until he complied with the robbers’ demands. Initially, the two robbers, an Armenian and a Ukrainian, demanded $500,000 in USDT but agreed to settle … Read more

Nigerian Crypto Crackdown: Two More Firms Convicted, Forced to Cough Up $30,000

A Nigerian court has convicted two more cryptocurrency firms, Egomsinachi Road Autos Limited and Chimera Log & Haulage Services Limited, for conducting unauthorized USDT-to-naira transactions. As a result, they’ve been ordered to transfer nearly $30,000 to the federal government. The latest court decision came just a few months after other crypto firms, Paparaxy Global Ventures … Read more