{"id":23,"date":"2026-03-14T19:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:25:55","slug":"the-elderly-farmers-life-savings-2024-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-elderly-farmers-life-savings-2024-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elderly Farmer\u2019s Life Savings (2024\u20132025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 77-year-old farmer, known as &#8220;Mr. X,&#8221; lost his life savings\u2014approximately <strong>11.86 Bitcoin (valued at over \u00a3300,000)<\/strong>\u2014to a sophisticated investment scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Scam:<\/strong> Fraudsters used remote-access software (AnyDesk) to help the victim &#8220;invest,&#8221; eventually draining his accounts and even pressuring him to sell vintage cars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Recovery:<\/strong> A unique collaboration between the police, a specialist legal firm (EMM Legal), and the exchange <strong>Binance<\/strong> made the recovery possible. The police traced the &#8220;peel-chains&#8221; (a laundering technique) back to a specific deposit address. Binance voluntarily froze the suspect&#8217;s account, and after a legal default judgment, the stolen Bitcoin was returned to the victim.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 77-year-old farmer, known as &#8220;Mr. X,&#8221; lost his life savings\u2014approximately 11.86 Bitcoin (valued at over \u00a3300,000)\u2014to a sophisticated investment scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}