It reads like a partial truth story or fake. It reads like a garden variety crypto scam, right down to the Chinese investor whale. The whole break-in part feels hazy and convenient.

You file a lawsuit and your flat gets broken into?

Nothing, at all, is missing except the very things you need to prove it. Possible. But you also don’t instantly realize, hey I just filed a suit for fraud against a guy and the only things missing are what I needed to prove it? If that happened, and he mentioned many other valuables untouched, I’m instantly knowing who did it.

Then he said he blocked his number right as he sold, which one would expect. But then he starts texting him again despite being blocked, presumably from a new number, why does the guy taunt him? This is a guy scared enough of his fraud allegations to hire someone to break into his flat on another continent, but just taunts him? A guy that meticulous to cover his tracks would just block again and ignore.

Pregnant girlfriend just for added heartstrings. Maybe it’s entirely true, but I’d bet it’s partially true or not true. His involvement in said project doesn’t mean much to me. If you’re going to extort someone for $, and make up a story, you’re going to make something up that involves a project connected with them.

I feel like everything up to the break in could be true, but it doesn’t make much sense after that.

Could just be a guy who lost money in a risky investment and is trying to ruin his rep. Could be he got rolled and embellished.