NYC Crypto Torture Suspects
Feds Raid Their Kentucky Property
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Feds are poking round a house owned by the 2 suspects charged with kidnapping and torturing an Italian man for weeks inside a swanky multimillion-dollar New York Metropolis townhouse in an alleged scheme to acquire a Bitcoin password.
Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz and his alleged confederate, Swiss businessman William Duplessie, personal an property in Kentucky … and the property is presently crawling with regulation enforcement.
Federal brokers from the ATF and officers from the Kentucky State Police and the New York Police Division are presently executing two warrants on the property … sources with data have confirmed to TMZ.
The ATF tells us the operation is a part of an “ongoing violent crime investigation at the side of the New York Police Division. Kentucky State Police supplied tactical help that concerned the service of two court-authorized warrants. As that is an energetic and ongoing investigation, we’re not capable of remark additional.”
As we reported … Woeltz, also called the “Crypto King of Kentucky,” and Duplessie have been arrested final month in NYC and charged in a sealed indictment with kidnapping and torture.
Prosecutors say Woeltz and Duplessie lured Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from Italy to New York, the place they kidnapped him and tortured him inside their Manhattan townhouse over the course of 17 days in an try to get him to surrender the password to his Bitcoin pockets.

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Carturan informed authorities, Woeltz and Duplessie lower his leg with a noticed, peed on him and compelled him to smoke crack cocaine from a pipe they held to his mouth. He says he managed to flee, operating barefoot out of the townhouse and flagging down a site visitors cop.
We obtained unique video of Carturan operating down the road after the site visitors cop, after which heading again in direction of the townhouse with the identical site visitors agent.

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TMZ additionally printed different footage calling into query whether or not Carturan was held in opposition to his will at sure factors, as is alleged.
Photographs present Carturan shirtless and smiling contained in the townhouse, with a neck collar hooked up to a leash {that a} girl is pulling … simulating an S&M scene.
Different movies seize Carturan apparently cooking crack cocaine in an air fryer whereas tied to a wheelchair together with his palms free and a giant grin on his face … and partying and having intercourse.