Four unknowns kidnapped Yury Mayorov, the creator of the cryptocurrency PRIZM, reported by Forklog yesterday, February 26. According to Forklog, Mayorov was stolen $ 20,000, 300 bitcoins (BTC) and three iPhones

Data on CoinMarketCap show that PRIZM has a total market capitalization of about $ 15.5 million and is trades around $ 1.04 per press time.

According to Mayorov's own allegations, he was abducted from Isakovskogo Street by four men on February 23 at 10 pm in Moscow, put in a Mercedes, and beaten while the men were driving the city.

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The kidnappings and theft of people involved in cryptocurrencies are becoming more common in Russia and Ukraine.

Four days ago, on February 23, a crypto investor in Moscow was cut in the face. a knife and 100 BTC, which are now worth about $ 1 million, were stolen from him. Another attack against a crypto-investor took place in St. Petersburg in mid-January, when a crypto YouTube blogger who boasted about his riches was attacked and robbed at home of 24 million of rubles, about $ 428,000

In December of last year in Ukraine, Pavel Lerner, UK-based crypto exchange director EXMO, was kidnapped in Kiev and released only three days after the payment of more than one million dollars in BTC.