Threatening to torture FSB pseudo-officers stole $1 million

The Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg has registered a criminal case against two accused of extortion and theft of funds, including cryptocurrencies. Total damage is estimated at more than 60 million rubles (almost $1 million).

According to the joint press service of the judicial system of St. Petersburg, in the spring of 2018, one of the accused Peter Piron tried to appropriate cryptocurrencies worth at least a million rubles from their owner, whose name is not called.