British farmer received 14 years in prison for extortion of bitcoins

The British farmer was sentenced to 14 Years of prison - he replaced baby food in Tesco supermarkets and extorted at the chain of stores 1.4 Milln pounds in bitcoins.

45-Summer Nigel Wright (Nigel Wright) I stuffed jars with baby food Heinz and Cow&Gate harmful substances, as well as sharp metal scraps, and placed them on Tesco supermarket shelves. Then he wrote a letter to the company with a request for a ransom for indicating the store, in which he carried out a substitution.

“Imagine open, Cuttled children's mouth, from which blood is whipping, or tummy, cut by metal. Wages, And you will save the children ", - wrote Wright in one of his letters.

Judge Justis Warbie (Justice Warby) stressed, that Wright was "ruthless" and "clearly revel in the process", Therefore, he was a fairly tough sentence. Note, that due to the threats of Wright in the UK, two campaigns were launched to review children's food COW&Gate and Heinz. They took it out of the stores 140 000 cans of baby food.

For, To catch a criminal, law enforcement agencies, that Tesco succumbed to blackmail. Investigators transferred bitcoins to the purse of the attacker, and then tracked the path of cryptocurrencies.

Recall, that at the end of September, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) transferred the case to the court of New York, of which he accuses Sweden citizen of fraud with cryptocurrencies in the amount of more $3.5 million.

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