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A crypto investor has been charged with kidnapping and torture.
John Woeltz was arrested Friday after a man escaped a Manhattan townhome and told authorities that Woeltz and another man had ...
NYC crypto trader accused of Italian man’s kidnap, torture threatened to kill his family to get Bitcoin password: prosecutors
Crypto trader John Woeltz, accused of kidnapping a 28-year-old Italian man, repeatedly shocked his victim with electric wires ...
‘The wealth is digital, the violence is analog’: How the crypto rich got caught up in a new crime wave
The attempted kidnapping of Australian tech billionaire Tim Heath has shed light on a troubling trend, as criminals turn to ...
France is tackling a crypto kidnapping wave denting its image and a potential presidential contender
Having chopped a finger from their hostage, the kidnappers were preparing to drill one of his knees, France's interior ...
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Crypto’s high price: The global kidnapping crisis targeting digital wealth
The alleged motive? Her family's cryptocurrency fortune. In a chilling new reality, digital wealth is no longer just ...
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France is tackling a crypto kidnapping wave denting its image and a potential presidential contender
After another attempted crypto kidnapping in the heart of Paris this week, the wave of violence is also blowing up into a political issue for the government of President Emmanuel Macron ...