A Hollywood-worthy ‘sadistic’ crypto crime uncovered in NYC « Euro Weekly News
By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Published: 25 May 2025 • 14:37
• 2 minutes read
An Italian was kidnapped and tortured for weeks by a so-called crypto investor who wanted his victim’s passwords to access an undisclosed amount of bitcoin, which, by the way, hit all-time highs of nearly $112,000 three days ago.
The Manhattan criminal court on Saturday charged 37-year-old crypto investor, John Woeltz, with kidnapping an Italian ban and beating and torturing him for several weeks to get him to surrender his cryptocurrency…
