The article says the FBI intervened before the hit was executed. They were apparently tipped off by the BBC. It's far more likely, in my opinion, that a BBC sou

The article says the FBI intervened before the hit was executed. They were apparently tipped off by the BBC. It's far more likely, in my opinion, that a BBC source would disclose his scam taking bitcoins from would-be hirerers of contract killers, than it is that an actual hitman would have bad enough opsec that the BBC would be the ones to discover his clients.