PANews, November 8 - According to CBC, Dean Skurka, the CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency company WonderFi, was kidnapped and released after paying a ransom of $1 million. The incident occurred in downtown Toronto, where Skurka was forcibly taken into a vehicle and held captive, with the ransom paid electronically for his release. Skurka stated that he is currently safe and that the funds and data of the company's clients were not affected.
The police have launched an investigation but have not disclosed further details. In recent years, executives in the cryptocurrency industry have frequently become targets of crime. In July of this year, a Bitcoin holder was kidnapped and subsequently murdered, losing three Bitcoins. WonderFi claimed last year to own nearly half of Canada's regulated cryptocurrency exchanges.
