KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 -- Three South Korean men accused of kidnapping their compatriot in a case linked to a cryptocurrency ransom demand worth RM39.5 million were granted bail by the Sessions Court in Raub, Pahang, on Monday.

According to MySinchew, Sessions Court judge Noor Zaihan Ali allowed bail at RM20,000 each with two local guarantors.

The accused were also ordered to surrender their passports to the court and report to the nearest police station on a weekly basis.

The three men - Kwon Kyung-ryul, 28, Kwak Jae-il, 40, and Kim Myeong-joon, 40, all from Busan - had previously pleaded not guilty to unlawfully confining 40-year-old South Korean national Kim Chan-kyu.

They are accused of abducting the victim at KM16 of the Genting H...