A criminal gang in South Africa which kidnapped a teenage boy on Sunday is demanding a ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency of nearly 120,000, dollars police said.
Police spokesperson Leonard Hlathi said, Katlego Marite, 13, was dragged into a car while playing with two friends near his home in Witbank, a town in the eastern province of Mpumalanga, on Sunday afternoon.
They demanded that the family should deposit a sum of 15 bitcoins, not in rands, he told news channel eNCA.
(The parents) dont even know what these bitcoins are. They are not dealing in those things. They are in tatters as we speak.
Source: NAN