Two South African brothers who ran a cryptocurrency platform – Africrypt – have “vanished” in what is believed to be the biggest-ever cryptocurrency heist. The Cajee brothers, Ameer and his younger brother Raees, vanished along with $3.6 billion (R51 billion) in Bitcoin, according to a Bloomberg report. Earlier on Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the brothers were being...
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