Ledger founder David Balland and his wife were freed after a 48-hour police search across France.
A millionaire crypto boss has been rescued from kidnappers by French special forces – but they arrived too late to stop the captors chopping off his finger.
They arrested 10 people – nine men and a woman – aged between 20 and 40. Police are hunting for further potential accomplices. The case was handed to a specialised inter-regional court in Paris and an investigation was opened into “kidnapping and sequestration in an organised gang to obtain the execution of a demand”, a crime punishable by life imprisonment.Police and gendarmes, including the GIGN, worked with cryptocurrency experts during the operation.
Balland’s wife, Amandine, remained missing, and magistrates and gendarmes reportedly feared that the panic-stricken kidnappers may have decided to “dispose” of their last hostage as the prospect of financial gain receded.. “We knew we had to move very quickly, and we had the feeling we had a team capable of going AWOL.”
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