Suspected 'Big Bitcoin Heist' Mastermind Fled To Sweden On Icelandic Pm's Plane

Remember the "Big bitcoin heist" nosotros reported concluding calendar month when a grouping of thieves stole to a greater extent than or less 600 powerful bitcoin mining devices from Icelandic information centers?

Icelandic Police had arrested eleven suspects every bit business office of the investigation, ane of which has escaped from prison theatre in addition to fled to Sweden on a rider airplane reportedly also carrying the Icelandic prime number government minister Katrin Jakobsdottir.

Sindri Thor Stefansson, who is suspected of masterminding the whole theft of close $2 meg worth of cryptocurrency-mining equipment, traveled nether a passport of mortal else but identified through surveillance footage.

Stefansson had of late been transferred to a low-security Sogn prison, located inward rural southern Republic of Iceland (just 59 miles away from Iceland's international airdrome inward Keflavik), from where he escaped through a window early on Tuesday in addition to boarded the flying to Sweden.

Prime government minister Jakobsdottir was on her agency to Sweden to accept business office inward India-Nordic Summit in addition to encounter Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inward Stockholm.

It appears Stefansson has managed to shroud himself inward Sweden, every bit Swedish police describe state no arrest has been made inward the reason later beingness briefed past times Icelandic police describe on the situation.

Icelandic police describe cause got issued an international arrest warrant for Stefansson.

The stolen cryptocurrency-mining devices are all the same missing, in addition to Icelandic police describe are monitoring high-energy consumption expanse across the acre inward an crusade to locate the missing equipment.

According to the authorities, Guards at the prison theatre did non study Stefansson missing until later the flying to Sweden had taken off.

"He had an accomplice. We are certain of that," Police Chief Gunnar Schram told online intelligence outlet Visir.

The theft, which the law enforcement said is ane of the biggest serial of robberies Iceland has always experienced, took house betwixt belatedly Dec in addition to early on January, patch the arrests of eleven people were made inward February.

Besides 600 bitcoin mining devices, the theft also included burglary of 600 graphics cards, 100 processors, 100 ability supplies, 100 motherboards in addition to 100 sets of figurer memory.

Shortly later the arrest, the Reykjanes District Court expressed restraint in addition to released ix people on bail, leaving solely 2 people nether arrest, which included the alleged incident's mastermind Stefansson.