Five people were indicted on Wednesday in Paris, suspected of having formed a network fraudulently recovering the ownership of elements of a "
particularly prized
" collection of NFTs, these certificates of authenticity linked to digital objects, indicated the Paris prosecutor's office to AFP.
These five young people are prosecuted within the framework of a judicial investigation opened this Wednesday for fraud in an organized gang, laundering of this offense and association of criminals.
They would have fraudulently recovered between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 the ownership of these NFTs, in particular the heads of
Bored Ape
monkeys , whose value is estimated at 2.5 million dollars, according to the same source.