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Kidnappers in Ukraine have released an employee at a United Kingdom-registered Cryptocurrency exchange after getting more than $1 million (£740,000) in bitcoins as ransom, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister told Reuters on Friday.
Pavel Lerner, a leading analyst and blockchain expert, was abducted by unknown masked people on 26 December, according to a statement by his company, EXMO Finance, on its website.
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