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Brothers' Bitcoin heist sees entrepreneurs flee with £2.5 billion in crypto cash
The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA pair of brothers have vanished along with $3.6 billion (£2.5 billion) worth of Bitcoin that had been stored in their cryptocurrency investment platform.South African brothers Ameer and Raees Cajee, who set up their crypto investment service Africrypt in 2019, were last heard from in an email to investors claiming the company had been hacked earlier this year. The suspicious email, seemingly sent by Ameer who is named chief operating officer of Africrypt, request that their investors not report the hacking to authorities or lawyers.Investors received the email when Bitcoin was surging to an all-time high in April of this year.