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In 2025, many terrible cases show that crimes related to cryptocurrency have moved from the screens to the streets. Private keys, access to wallets, and massive OTC trades led to violence that left bodies, burned metal, and empty balances.
These stories shook up the space of digital assets, and each one revealed the terrifying truth that crime related to cryptocurrency now comes with guns, warehouses and fires.
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Vienna Cryptocurrency Assassin: Torture to Get Wallet Passwords
Earlier in November, Vienna woke up to the sound of a Mercedes car burning under a railway bridge. Inside was 21-year-old Danilo K., burned beyond recognition, lying on the back seat.
The police followed Murder At the hotel car park in Leopoldstadt. There, Danilo was attacked by his Ukrainian partner, who was only 19 years old, and a 45-year-old accomplice.
He was beaten, had his teeth pulled, and was carried across town. His captors asked him By getting access to their digital currency wallets. They forced him to give the passwords after hours of torture.
The attackers emptied their wallets and took bundles of… US dollars When they were arrested. Investigators later found a can of melted fuel on the back seat where Danilo died.
According to reports, suffocate The victim, Danilo, with his blood and fire. His fortune lived on the chain long enough to be stolen by thieves.
The suspects fled to Ukraine that night. However, they were arrested but will be tried here, not in Austria.
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Kidnapping in Montreal: The disappearance of a cryptocurrency influencer
Last year in Old Montreal, 25-year-old cryptocurrency influencer Kevin Mirshahi was pulled into a waiting car. It was finished kidnap Three others were with him, and were released the next day.
Mirshahi did not return, and his body turned up in a riverside park four months later.
Police have charged three people, including Darius Perry and Nakiel Hickey, with arrest and complicity in the murder. One woman, Joni LePage, faces a charge of first-degree murder.
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Investigators have not confirmed that the reason is related to cryptocurrencies. But Mirshahi ran a private token investment group and had a public profile in this arena.
He built an online audience around trade and wealth, and someone used a box and duct tape for silence.
$85,000 seized in parking lot ambush during cash-for-cryptocurrency transaction
In Trinidad, i fell Another crime, quick and organized, with no chance of escape.
On November 29, a man arrived at the Superfarm car park on Trinity Central Road. He planned to buy cryptocurrencies with $85,800 in cash, wrapped in a black bag.
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Police reports confirm that he met with an old business contact to complete the deal. Moments after the bag was delivered, two armed men approached the car.
They smashed the windows and pointed guns at the passengers. The criminals took the money and both mobile phones and fled in a waiting car.
No digital currency is exchanged. Authorities described the situation as an operation Targeted theft linked to cryptocurrency trading in spot markets.
A new era of violence
These cases represent a change. Cryptocurrency violence is no longer digital theft carried out by hackers behind the scenes.
Now it’s more physical, involving real basements, cars, fires, hammers and screams. Cryptocurrency holders must now live with the painful reality that keys protect tokens, but tokens do not protect life.
