According to PANews, a Pakistani cryptocurrency trader was kidnapped in a police car by five men who claimed to be police officers and forced to transfer $340,000 from his mobile phone at gunpoint.
The local police have filed a case and handed it over to the Anti-Violent Crime Team (AVCC) for further investigation. The victim said the suspect had contacted him to trade cryptocurrencies, but he refused.
Police sources revealed that evidence has been collected regarding police mobile phones and the officers involved in the case.