Kidnapped, murdered, and burned for tokens: 3 horrifying stories about cryptocurrency

Three crimes related to cryptocurrency that shocked the world in 2025 — a student tortured for a wallet key in Vienna, a cash-for-cryptocurrency deal attacked in Trinidad, and a person with influential connections…

- A Ukrainian student in Vienna was tortured, forced to reveal the wallet password, and burned alive in his car.

- In Trinidad, gunmen ambushed a high-value OTC cryptocurrency transaction, robbing 85,800 USD in cash at gunpoint and escaping.

- In Montreal, cryptocurrency influencer Kevin Mirshahi was kidnapped, missing for months, and later found murdered in a riverside park.

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