Six men abduct Chicago family, force them to transfer $15M in Crypto

The US Authorities person filed a suit and person charged six men successful transportation with kidnapping of a household of 3 and a nanny successful Chicago and consequent dacoity of $15 cardinal successful cryptocurrencies. 

As per the caller reports by the Chicago Tribune, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of US has stated that connected October 2024, the kidnappers had knocked connected the doorway of the victim’s location acting arsenic if they had accidentally damaged the victim’s store doorway and the kidnappers than person forced their mode wrong with the guns.   

Then the kidnappers forced the victims to get successful a van and past took them to an Airbnb astir an hr distant for 1 nighttime and past to different location the adjacent day. After the kidnapping, the kidnappers demanded outgo of $15 cardinal from victims successful Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and different cryptocurrencies. The victims besides stated that they threatened them that if they didn’t transportation the wealth successful cryptocurrencies the kidnappers would termination them. 

Reports item that the victims were released connected Nov.1, 2024. The six suspects were charged connected Dec.13, 2024, and lone 1 fishy named Zehuan Wei, was arrested for entering the US from Mexico connected Jan 17, 2025. And the different 5 men Fan Zhang, Huajing Yan, Shengnan Jiang, Shiqiang Lian and Ye Cao, are believed to person fled to China aft Wei’s arrest.

US officials collected grounds earlier they claimed the charges which included accessing surveillance footage from Airbnb and examining cryptocurrency wallets and the contents from wrong the achromatic Ford van. However, the US authorities person lone accounted for $6 cardinal from $15 cardinal successful cryptocurrencies.

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