Two Sydney men have been charged after allegedly kidnapping and torturing people they believed had large sums of cryptocurrency.
Police said a 26-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were forced into a vehicle by two men wearing balaclavas near a car park on Court Road, Fairfield about 11:40am on Wednesday, January 18.
They were taken to a location in Swan Bay in the Hunter region where they were allegedly tied to chairs and held captive for 36 hours.