The father of an unnamed crypto entrepreneur was free of the police in Paris, France, during a law enforcement agency of ownership, where the person was captured for several days for ransom.
After reporting by Le Monde, the RAID led five arrests on May 3. According to the local Outlet Le Parisien, the abductors demanded between 5 and seven million euros or as much as 7.9 million US dollars to release the captive man.
Although the small print on the identity of the victims are more likely to be sparsely after safety reasons, the crypto entrepreneur and his father were together in Malta based in Malta based crypto marketing company, reports French media.
This incident comprises similarities to the kidnapping of the co-founder of Ledger, David Balland, in France in January 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06mvwz6ngm
Unfortunately, this recent incident also follows plenty of similar ransom attempts world wide, which aim at crypto users and their relatives so as to blackmail funds of people who find themselves perceived as considerable assets.
Unfortunately, crypto drafting attempts are too common
In November 2024, Dean Skurka, CEO of Wonderfi, was kidnapped and compelled to pay the attackers a cryptocurrency solutions of 1 million US dollars who kidnapped him with a vehicle in downtown Toronto, Canada.
Six people in Chicago, Illinois, were charged in February 2025 due to kidnapping of a family and their nanny for consideration for a crypto resume.
According to an FBI report, the abductors thirdly into the home in Chicago by stating that they by accident damaged the family's mechanical garage gate.
Once inside, the suspects forced the family right into a van and kidnapped the family for five days before they forced them at hand over cryptocurrencies price 15 million US dollars to secure their release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf08so8tei
Online streamer Amouranth was the victim of a house vasion in March 2025, when several armed suspects held them with a weapon held up and demanded the keys to their cryptocurrency.
In reference to the incident, 4 suspects were charged and arrested by law enforcement officers within the US state of Texas.
