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PANews reported on April 10 that according to Protos, citing the BBC, British prosecutors said that a wealthy Chinese businessman was kidnapped at gunpoint at a well-known golf course in the UK, threatened with a knife, beaten and locked in a cage for more than 30 hours by a crypto extortion gang, and demanded $15 million in Bitcoin. Prosecutors allege that in October 2023, while playing golf at Brockett Manor in Hertfordshire, England, Dylan Huang was assaulted by five men and forcibly dragged into a car, and the gang then tied him up and took him to a property in Surrey, where they locked him in a cage, blindfolded him and sealed his mouth with duct tape. When the gang demanded tens of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, Dylan Huang offered to sell his stocks and shares to the gang, while also trying to get various loans from his friends.
"After a few hours, it seems that the kidnappers are starting to get angry," the prosecution said. They began to hurt him - hit him in the leg with some kind of object. The ordeal allegedly lasted 30 hours, during which Dylan Huang was fed but not allowed to use the toilet. Dylan Huang was eventually released and abandoned near another golf club in Surrey.
Tianfu Guo, 35, was arrested after police tracked his car using a remote ANPR camera. He is currently on trial in the Royal Court of St. Albans on charges of accomplice in kidnapping, accomplice in racketeering, and possession of a replica firearm with intent to create fear of violence.