FORMER RUSSIAN POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS FOR STEALING ₽20M IN BITCOIN AND USING VIOLENCE

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A former Russian police officer has been sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing Bitcoin worth 20 million rubles after confiscating a detainee’s phone and forcibly transferring the funds to his own account. According to Russian media the ex–traffic police officer committed the crime in 2022. In addition to stealing the Bitcoin, he used violence to coerce the detainee. The court ordered him to serve seven years in a standard prison, strip him of his police rank, and pay 20 million rubles in compensation to the victim.

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