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2019: Evacuation because of threats with request for payment of bitcoins

On November 28, 2019 the building of the St. Petersburg city court was evacuated because of explosion threat. Unknown malefactors announced mining by e-mail. This letter was published by the joint press service of courts of St. Petersburg in the Telegram channel.

In it it is said that the building is mined, and exits and entrances it is observed. At emergence of a cordon and explosives technicians authors of the message promise to activate explosive.

The building of the St. Petersburg city court was evacuated because of explosion threat

Messages about Explosions will come until Konstantin Malofeyev does not repay a debt of 120 bitcoins stolen from the WEH exchange — malefactors reported (the spelling is saved).

In the letter the link to investigation of BBC is also specified. In it journalists of the edition found out how the entrepreneur Konstantin Malofeyev and falling of the Russian-language cryptoexchange Wex is connected.

Konstantin Malofeyev is an entrepreneur, the founder of Tsargrad TV TV channel, the member of the board of trustees of League of the Safe Internet non-profit partnership.

In July, 2017 one of the VTS-E largest cryptocurrency exchanges which average daily turnover made from $20 million to $70 million failed. Soon after that rebranding was made: BTC-E began to be called Wex. The fighter of the DPR Dmitry Havchenko with a call sign Seaman became the new owner of the exchange.

According to him, at least $400 million were displaid from customer accounts already at the time of purchase of an asset by it. In the summer of 2018 of RBC reported that behind this transaction there could be Konstantin Malofeyev.

On November 28, 2019 also because of messages about mining evacuated buildings of the Tver, Petty-bourgeois, Basmanny, Ostankino and Kuzminsky district courts in Moscow. Malefactors also demanded to transfer them bitcoins.

In St. Petersburg people were brought out of Krasnogvardeysky, Moscow, Frunze, Kirov, Pushkin, Smolninsky district courts, the First Western district military court and the St. Petersburg garrison military court.^[1]

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