Crypto Investors Charged with Kidnapping & Torture Over Bitcoin Heist

Two prominent cryptocurrency investors, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, have been arrested and charged with kidnapping, assault, and weapons possession after allegedly holding an Italian entrepreneur captive for nearly three weeks in a luxury Manhattan townhouse to extract his Bitcoin password. The victim, Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, was lured to the residence in SoHo on May 6th before being subjected to various forms of abuse, including brutal beatings, druggings, electric shocks, and even hanging over a staircase by his captors, who threatened to harm him and his family if he didn’t comply.