Ukraine kidnappers release hostage after $1m bitcoin ransom paid

Male employee of UK-registered cryptocurrency exchange ‘safe, but stressed’ following capture by gunmen Kidnappers in Ukraine have released an employee at a UK-registered cryptocurrency exchange after getting more than $1m (£750,000) in bitcoin as a ransom, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister told Reuters on Friday. Pavel Lerner, a leading analyst and blockchain expert, was seized by masked abductors on Boxing Day, according to a statement by his company, EXMO Finance