THELOGICALINDIAN - The abode of Alexander Altunbashev a Bulgarian administrator and crypto banker are alien back Monday Law administration admiral are now investigating his accessible abduction while some in the bounded crypto association brainstorm he ability be ambuscade from annoyed investors
Bulgarian Authorities Investigate Possible Kidnapping of Alleged Crypto Millionaire
Police in Bulgaria are aggravating to locate a agent who went missing beneath aberrant affairs beforehand this week. The 32-year-old Alexander Altunbashev is an IT specialist and administrator who, according to media reports, fabricated money from crypto trading.
Prosecutors in Sofia are attractive into his accessible kidnapping as the capital doubtable acumen for his disappearance. Quoting sources from the investigation, Nova TV appear that Alexander’s sister, Teodora, batten with him afore he larboard for Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second-largest city.
On Monday morning, Teodora gave him a ride to Sofia’s Mladost district. Later that day, she saw a man unlocking and entering her brother’s home, appropriate abutting aperture to her own apartment. When she asked him who he was and what he was doing, he larboard cogent her alone he was “in a hurry” and accepting in an SUV apprenticed by a woman.
Investigators begin Alexander’s accommodation angry upside down. They accept that whoever did it was apparently aggravating to accretion admission to his coffer accounts or cryptocurrency wallets. The aftermost time Teodora managed to ability him over the phone, Alexander told her he was traveling appear Burgas, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.
Alexander’s aberant behavior and her bootless attempts to allocution to him afresh back his buzz was switched off assertive Teodora to alarm the police. Investigators accept additionally interrogated the crypto trader’s girlfriend, Kristina, who didn’t apperceive of any threats adjoin him or issues with his business relations.
Altunbashev May Be Hiding From Clients, Crypto Community Suspects
The missing IT expert’s cellphone was aftermost acclimated from a area aloof alfresco Sofia. The aftermost being to allege with him was Ivaylo Borisov, a being with a bent almanac accepted by his alias ‘Torino,’ who is a abutting acquaintance of Alexander. The two were declared to accommodated at apex on Monday but the crypto banker didn’t appearance up. Borisov is accommodating with law administration authorities.
Meanwhile, speculations accept emerged in the country’s crypto association that Alexander Altunbashev may accept absolutely absitively to go into ambuscade as he was apparently advance funds for audience that may accept been lost. “If he was absolutely managing money for others, and you deathwatch up one morning and the money has angry to aught — maybe there is a battle with the bodies that are attractive for their money,” commented Vladislav Dramaliev, administrator of Bithope Foundation, quoted by bTV.
The case follows the contempo crypto bazaar slump that led to above bill like bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) accident bisected of their amount back aftermost year’s best highs and the collapse of crypto projects. According to bottomless letters by added Bulgarian publications, Altunbashev fabricated over €6 actor (almost $6.5 million) in 2021 and allegedly boasted to accompany about big-ticket absolute acreage purchases in Greece and Dubai. His Facebook profile reveals he has visited added alien destinations as well.
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