Man charged after £1.5m cryptocurrency raid on car
GoogleA man has been charged after a group of masked men entered a vehicle and stole a watch worth about £450,000 and cryptocurrency of more than £1m.
Two men and three women were travelling in the car in Oxford on the afternoon of 4 November when the men clad in face coverings got inside.
They forced one of the victims to transfer £1.5m of cryptocurrency out of their account, and also took phones and a Richard Mille watch.
Abdul Malik Cali, 24, of no fixed abode, was arrested by officers at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday evening and has been charged with five counts of conspiracy to commit robbery.
He appeared at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday morning and has been remanded into custody until a court hearing at Oxford Crown Court on 16 January.
Five other people have been arrested in connection with the Thames Valley Police investigation and are on bail.
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