An investor in cryptocurrencies was arrested this Friday, May 23, suspected of having kidnapped a man and kidnapped him for weeks in an apartment in Manhattan, in New York, to obtain a Bitcoin password, reports this Sunday this Sunday.
The victim escaped Friday and emerged in the police. Manhattan’s prosecution told AP that the man said he was tied by the wrists and tortured for weeks in an apartment.
Drug addict and electrocute
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, his kidnappers would have drugged, electrocuted with electrical cables, beaten in the head with a firearm and threatened to death if he refused to share his Bitcoin password. After finally communicating his password, the victim took advantage of a moment of lack of attention from his captor and fled.
The investor, John Woeltz, 37, was accused on Saturday for kidnapping, assault, kidnapping and illegal possession of firearms, according to AP. It was placed in pretrial detention. The Prosecutor’s Office said he had accomplices. According to the police, cited by the New York Times, the victim was hospitalized in a stable state.
In France, in recent months, several leaders of companies specialized in cryptocurrencies, as well as relatives, have been subject to criminals. The last attempt to kidnap, aborted but spectacular, in mid -May on Paris Street, attacked the daughter and grandson, minor, from the CEO of the Paymium Exchange platform.
Source: BFM TV
