Brazilian woman kidnapped for Bitcoin ransom, four suspects arrested According to Golden Finance, police in Recife, Brazil have arrested four suspects for kidnapping a retired professor woman. The incident occurred in March of this year, when the victim's son (who works in cryptocurrency related fields in Portugal) paid a ransom of 5 bitcoins worth approximately 3.3 million reals (about 600000 US dollars) at the time. The police stated that the suspects, including two men and two women, had tracked the victim's son through social media before the kidnapping. This incident reflects that kidnapping and cryptocurrency extortion cases are not uncommon worldwide.