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Prisoner Jailed for 8 Years Over Crypto Theft Plot
Robert Barr, a 29-year-old prisoner serving a 21-month sentence for fraud, was sentenced to eight years in prison by Scotland's High Court of Justiciary for planning an attempted £2 million ($2.7 million) cryptocurrency theft from his prison cell. Barr, along with accomplices Sean Favier and Iain Doyle, was found guilty of serious organized crime. The plan involved having accomplices force a crypto investor to install remote-access software to drain the wallet from prison. The attempt was thwarted when the couple refused entry to the house where the investor lived.