A group of seven British men have been jailed for a combined 76 years after kidnapping and brutalizing a man in an attempt to acquire hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of crypto assets.

According to a report by local police, the unidentified victim was kidnapped from his home in Irlam, Greater Manchester in December, before being thrown into a van and forcibly taken to a nearby property with a bag over his head.

The victim was then tied to a bed and hit with a weapon by the men, acquiring bruising and burn marks. Police later seized a working firearm, three rounds of ammunition, an imitation firearm, an air pistol, knives, meat cleavers, a metal baseball bat, a machete, and a hammer from the scene.

The police received an anonymous call reporting concerns for welfare at the property, and upon arriving at the scene, saw a man running away from the address—later identified as Karl Johnson.

The group of men had reportedly visited the victim on multiple occasions throughout 2023 to threaten him into transferring his large crypto portfolio, estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, to them.

The wave of attacks began in January 2023, and ac

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