Would-be bomber thrown in the cooler for six and a half years
A 43-year-old fella has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for attempted murder – after sending a bomb to a British cryptocoin firm over its failure to reset his account password.
According to London’s Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, Jermu Michael Salonen, a resident of Gullspång, Sweden, sent a functional explosive device in a padded envelope to two employees at Cryptopay, a digital currency service provider.
In March 2018, a man working at the upstart’s Hackney office block began opening the package but became suspicious and alerted authorities. Bomb experts then defused the device, and the Met’s terror cops stepped in.
The plod determined the package had been delivered to the office block back in November 2017, before Cryptopay had moved in, and sat unopened for five months.
An accounting firm used by the company was located there at the time, so the address was probably picked by Salonen thinking Cryptopay was located there; in reality, the biz wouldn’t move in until later.
