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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jake Offenhartz

Judge denies bail to crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing man in posh NYC townhouse

EEUU-SECUESTRO-CRIPTOS - (AP)

A grand jury has indicted a cryptocurrency investor who was charged with kidnapping and torturing a man for weeks in an upscale Manhattan townhouse in order to gain access to his Bitcoin.

John Woeltz, 37, has been jailed since his arrest Friday outside the luxury rental, where an Italian national told police he was severely beaten, drugged, shocked with electrical wires and dangled over a ledge by captors seeking the password to his digital assets.

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