A Venezuelan police agency says it has caught criminals who have allegedly stolen cryptoassets from pensioners by misusing the Patria crypto remittance platform.
Per an Instagram post from Douglas Rico, the Director of the Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigation Service Corps (known locally as the CICPC), the agency has arrested “members of a criminal gang” he claimed had been operating in Maturín, a city in the state of Monagas. Rico wrote that the police had arrested three individuals – a man and a woman in their mid-30s and a man in his 20s.
The police claimed that the group was calling itself the “Hackers from the East” and was targeting retirees, with a view to stealing their cryptoassets. The government-run Patria platform allows Venezuelans based overseas to send tokens to relatives and friends back home. The state also uses the platform to distribute benefits to individuals – such as pensioners – using its petro (PTR) cryptoasset.
Rico stated that the case has now been...
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