Nick Drakon, the CEO of Revelo Intel was attacked. The company's coins and his personal coins were demanded for in the presence of his wife and 8 month old child.
It’s been almost 4 years since I entered the crypto space as a somewhat “public figure” and my time here has been mostly fantastic. I have met hundreds of interesting and kind people, some of whom I now consider great friends.
My interactions with 99.5% of folks in the crypto industry have been overwhelmingly positive and productive. It’s been a pleasure to have chatted with some of you online, met some of you in person as well as doing business with some of you.
There is a dark side to this industry though which is quite sinister. Anonymous bad actors operating in the shadows are constantly waiting for opportunities to inflict pain and suffering while enriching themselves.
I was recently targeted, surveilled and robbed by a highly sophisticated group. This was an in person attack where my wife and 8 month old son were threatened.
The group was specifically interested in crypto assets and knew the deposit addresses belonging to the crypto businesses I operate. I was forced, at gunpoint, to log into a number of crypto accounts and transfer funds out.
The funds stolen comprised personal funds, Revelo Intel working capital & retained earnings, as well as Revelo Ventures (an investment syndicate) funds for deals awaiting settlement.
The vast majority of stolen funds belonged to me personally. There is some evidence to suggest that someone in the Ventures syndicate is either part of the group, or passing information onto them.
Could this be planned by the CEO? I do not think a CEO can do something like this. He has reported the case and it is under investigation.
Well in my own point of view, it's very much obvious that someone close to him, someone that is aware of his holdings is the one that orchestrate such robbery, and if they really want to fish out the perpetrator of the robbery incident, then the first set of suspect is those persons that are aware that he is holding such an asset, because I am very much positive that people can only attack what they are aware of, so it's only those people that knows that he is holding such an amount of digital asset that that can orchestrate such robbery.
Finally, when reading this, the only thing that came into my head is that this robbery incident cannot be possible if all his holdings, plus his company asset was in secret, so what am trying to say is that, as we are acquiring more Bitcoin or several digital asset, we should try our possible best to keep it as a secret, because revealing your holdings to people will only make you a target for robbers if care is not taken .
