Another Bitcoin CEO was killed in Kerala, India today over losses that he was allegedly unable to pay back, according to news reports in India.
CEO Abdul Shakoor allegedly lost several millions of dollars in Bitcoin and when he was unable to pay it back, he was tortured and beat up by what appear to have been his business colleagues. They dumped his body at a hospital before fleeing.
Shakoor allegedly told his business colleagues that the company’s wallet that held all the pooled digital currencies was hacked. Only Shakoor had the passwords to access the wallet.
His business colleagues tortured him for access to the wallet, ultimately killing him for access.
A month ago, another Bitcoin executive, Tobiasz Niemiro, was murdered in Poland shortly after announcing that his digital currency exchange, BitMarket, was insolvent and customer funds were lost.
A month ago in India, three Bitcoin traders were kidnapped, taken to a high rise in India and tortured for two weeks. The kidnappers sought 80 Bitcoin for their release. And over a year ago, an ICO developer was kidnapped, beaten, mutilated and forced to transfer over $1M in Bitcoin to robbers in Moscow.
The number of murders of Bitcoin executives keeps growing.
Ten months ago, Heikki Bjrklund Paltto, a Bitcoin trader, was murdered in his home in Norway. He was 24 years old. And 18 months ago, a Bitcoin executive, Pavel Nyashin, was murdered in Russia. He was 23 years old.
The first Bitcoin exchange murder was in 2014 – then, the CEO of an early exchange, Autumn Radtke, was murdered in Singapore, although some believe her death was a suicide.