French prosecutors said on Monday that the police had arrested seven people during the weekend in connection with the kidnapping of the father of an entrepreneur of Cryptocurrency, adding that the prisoner had been liberated.
In a statement, the office of the public prosecutor said that it had been informed on Thursday that a man in Paris had been kidnapped and with ‘a ransom asked’. The office did not mention the kidnapped man.
The prisoner, who was held in a house in Essonne, an area south of Paris, was liberated by the police on Saturday evening, according to the statement. It added, without providing further details that the man was injured and was taken for medical treatment.
The office of the public prosecutor did not immediately respond to questions about the nature of the prisoners’ injuries or about the amount of the question.
The police arrested four people “in or near the house where the victim was held imprisoned during the operation on Saturday” and a fifth person who “rode one of the vehicles that was probably used by the perpetrators,” said the office of the public prosecutor. Two more people were arrested on Sunday, the statement added.
In A post on social mediaBruno Retaillleau, the French Minister of the Interior, wrote: “A huge congratulations to the researchers who have done an exceptional work to free this man and arrest his abductors.”
The case was the latest controversial kidnapping in France connected to cryptocurrency.
In January, the police David Balland FreeA crypto entrepreneur, and his wife, who were kidnapped and held two days before ransom.
Mr. Balland is a founder of Ledger who sells physical devices to store crypto assets. He was admitted to the hospital because the abductors had mutilated his hand, said Laure Beccuau, the public prosecutor in Paris, at the time. His wife was tied in a car, but was otherwise unharmed, Mrs Beccuau added.
A few weeks earlier, a man and his family in France were held hostage by a group who wanted to blackmail his son, a crypto -influencer who lived in Dubai, French news media reported.
Justice officers did not respond immediately to questions on Monday asking if there were connections between the kidnapping last week and other abductions linked to cryptocurrency.