On Bali, a gang of nine Russians abducted a citizen of Ukraine Igor Ermakov. He was tortured and forced to give a password from a cryptocurrency account, from which they stole cryptocurrency in the amount of $ 214,429. One of the abductors was detained at the airport while trying to fly to Dubai - it was a fighter of MMA Hassan Askhabov. This is reported by Bali Populer.

Askhabova was detained by employees of the immigration service at Ngura-Ray Airport on Thursday evening, January 30, 2025.

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After the initial inspection, Askhabov was taken by Bali police officers to the station. Eight more gang participants are looking for.

Igor Ermakov spoke about what happened. According to him, on December 15, 2024, about 13. 15 local time, the vehicle in which he was driving was suddenly blocked by two cars in front and back. Suddenly, about five people, dressed in all black and armed. They beat him and forced him to transfer to their car. They were blindfolded and handcuffed them.

The video from the DVR shows that people with hammers and weapons, dressed in body armor with the inscription "

Then the victim was transported to the villa in the area of \u200b\u200bUbud. There, the abductors forced Ermakov to open access to his mobile phone and a cryptocurrency wallet stored on Binance. As a result of this incident, the victim suffered losses in the amount of about 3.2 billion Indonesian rupees (about 200 thousand dollars). He was forced to transfer money to two different accounts.

Ermakov received injuries of the right ear and both wrists.

" The case is currently being investigated by the Bali Criminal Investigation Department, ”the victim said.

Currently, the message is investigated by the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigations of the Bali Police.

“The investigation is still underway,” said the head of the public relations department Bali, senior commissar Paul Ariasand.

It is worth noting that Askhabov uploaded a lot of photos from his vacation in Bali. Before that, he was in the USA and Paris, made a pilgrimage to Mecca. And in 2020 even posted photos from Ukraine.

Recall, in the fall of 2024, the blogger and business co-scientist Alexander Voloshin, who in August 2024 left Ukraine abroad, boasted the purchase of Villa at Bali.