This is the last alleged criminal attempt at France in France involved in the management of digital assets.
The man was removed Thursday morning in Paris, said the French prosecutor’s office on Sunday.
“The victim turned out to be the father of a man who made a fortune in the cryptocurrencies, and the incident was accompanied by a ransom request,” the statement said, without giving their names or other details on their identity.
Police investigators locate the hostage in a house in Essonne, south of Paris, from where it was rescued on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
He was treated for his injuries, but the police authorities did not give details. The French media reported that alleged hostage takers had cut one of the man’s fingers.
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-Police arrested five people. Four of them were in or near the house where the man was retained in captivity, while the fifth was behind the wheel of a vehicle which was used for the alleged abduction, according to the prosecutor’s office.
He added that the police investigation envisages a whole series of possible criminal charges, including the abduction “with torture or act of barbarism”.
In January, the police said that a co -founder of the French Cryptocuronnaies Ledger Society, David Balland, had also been kidnapped with his wife at their home in the Cher department, in the center of France.
The police said that they had made ten arrests and that the alleged captors had asked for a ransom in cryptocurrency from another co -founder of Ledger.
A raid of the intervention group of the National Gendarmerie (GIGN), a French elite unit specializing in hostage -taking, made it possible to release Mr. Balland the next day, followed the next day by the Liberation, still by the GIGN, of his wife, found tied in a vehicle.
