Second crypto investor arrested in alleged Bitcoin password torture case

In brief: A second crypto-investor has been arrested over the alleged kidnapping and torture of a man by captors who wanted to steal the password for his Bitcoin account. The incident was the latest in a series of global kidnappings targeting crypto millionaires. William Duplessie, 32, turned himself in to authorities yesterday. He was arrested in connection to the kidnapping and torture of 28-year-old Italian national Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, who escaped from a townhouse in Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood. Duplessie is listed as the co-founder and head of sourcing at Pangea Blockchain Fund and an investor in other blockchain-based companies. Carturan, who was found bloodied and barefoot, sought help from a traffic agent upon his escape. He later told police that he had been held against his will for almost three weeks, during which time he had been tied up with electrical tape, pistol whipped, cut on the leg with a saw, hung off a roof ledge, forced to smoke crack coca ... Read full article.