A shopping cart behind a deposition tape of the police for the establishment of supermarket chain Jumbo at the Euroborg. Photos ANP / SIESE VEENSTRA
launched Following the series of bomb threats at branches of the Jumbo, the police today, a site with information about the case. This shows that the blackmailer will be paid in bitcoins.
The author has in a letter received on June 5 demanded. That was a day before the bomb threat at the branch in Groningen Euroborg.
At the site, the police prepared a (limited) offender profile. The blackmailer would be a man between 20 and 40 years old who supposedly lives in Groningen. He has “knowledge of explosives,” affinity with computer and electronics and the process “requires a precise way of working.”
The fact that the blackmailer will be paid in bitcoins is a novelty. Bitcoins are attractive to criminals because it is very difficult to figure out who they are; owners hold bitcoins into digital wallets that are anonymous. In addition, banks are sidelined because bitcoin transactions between users without the intervention of a bank occur. How many Bitcoins are involved, the police will not say anything.
The Jumbo blackmailer had to hear the first time on May 8 this year, when an explosive device at a branch of the Jumbo at Wilhelminakade in Groningen was found. On May 31, an explosive device went off in the same city at a branch at Victory Square, which caused no casualties. A week later a report of a bomb at the Jumbo in the Euroborg, where after a search of the police and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) was nothing found.
Initially it seemed that the perpetrator was only active in Groningen, but on July 1 was a subsidiary of the Jumbo in Zwolle a card with an explosive.
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