In August 2025, Wang Lei, 39, decided to part with his EV. He bought it back in 2016 when electric cars still felt new in Beijing. It was a compact Chinese model. Good subsidies and a salesman's pitch about supporting domestic innovation convinced him. Now, nearly a decade later, it was finally time to let it go.
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A Russian crypto fraudster's wife was kidnapped. The kidnappers demanded a ransom in cryptocurrency. This happened after he was arrested for a massive fraud scheme. It shows the dangerous, real-world consequences of crypto crime. Even digital money can lead to very physical threats.
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