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Kidnappings, severed finger: Violent crime sweeps crypto industry

Hartford | A man says he was tortured for weeks in a New York townhouse. Another in Paris was held for ransom and his finger was cut off. A couple in Connecticut were carjacked, beaten and thrown into a van.

All, authorities allege, were victims tied to cryptocurrency-related crimes that have spilled out from behind computer screens and into the real world as the largely unregulated currency surges in value.

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