Woman who stole USD $ 500,000 in crypto to her boyfriend as she slept, she will go to prison in South Korea

By Canuto

A history of betrayal and cryptocurrencies in South Korea when a young woman was sentenced to prison after draining her sleeping boyfriend.

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South Korean woman condemned for subtracting USD $ 500,000 in cryptocurrencies to her partner while sleeping.
After declaring himself guilty, he will go to prison for two years under charges of embezzlement and fraud.
Cases of robberies, extortion and kidnappings leading to cryptocurrency users grow.
This same week, a violent kidnapping attempt in France shocked the community.

In a fact that seems taken from a contemporary film, a young South Korean was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of looting the cryptocurrency wallet of his partner while he slept.

According to a local news media, the woman, whose identity was not rebelled, would have taken advantage while her partner rested to furtively access her mobile device and transfer an approximate sum of half a million US dollars in digital assets to her own digital wallets.

The report does not specify what assets they were nor does it detail whether the defendant had prior knowledge of the access keys and authentication mechanisms, which would have facilitated the operation without raising any immediate suspicion.

Not satisfied with fortune in digital currencies, the woman, Identified only as “A”, she would also have stolen cash and her partner’s mobile phone, raising the total subtracted to USD $ 490,000.

The bride, who would have declared guilty to justice for the charges of embezzlement and fraud, was convicted by a South Korean court on May 15, as reported.

His legal team said that the real loss was only 21.9 million Wones, or USD $ 15,600, because most of the funds had been returned since then. However, the court had little clemency when issuing its two -year prison sentence for the defendant, citing the size of the loss and the criminal records.

“The total number of damage is large”the judge ruled, noting that the woman had two previous fraud sentences and was already in trial for another case of fraud at the time of theft.

Film cryptocurrencies

The crimes associated with cryptocurrencies have become more common as the adoption of these assets grows, although less frequently for cases of such intimate robberies.

South Korea, which has also been at the forefront in terms of regulatory and technological adoption, has seen other cases of robberies to cryptocurrency users. In February, a man of about 30 years was found stabbed to death in a hotel in the South Korean city of Jeju after traveling there for a private exchange, as he remembers Decrypt.

According to the chain analysis platform Chaynalisis, South Korea was the 19th largest country in terms of adoption of cryptocurrencies in 2024. The country led the Eastern Asia region with a flow of approximately USD $ 130 billion in digital assets received between one year, between July 2023 to June of the following year.

In other latitudes, a similar case also characterized by the betrayal of a romantic couple, In Florida, a 22 -year -old girl supposedly stole USD $ 850,000 tokens meme Trump to His ex -boyfriend after a fight aboard his yacht. Now faces more and possible deportation robbery charges, according to coverage.

This same week, the sinister attempt to kidnap the daughter of a cryptocurrency CEO shocked the community. The images of the violent event, which were registered in Chamber, circulated widely on international networks and media.

The news reflects a growing trend of extortion cases, abuses and kidnappings aimed at cryptocurrency investors both in Europe and in other regions. In France, this is not the first altercation of this type.

Article written with the help of AI, edited by Hannah Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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