The suspects in the kidnapping of Manhattan’s encryption, the issue of torture is not guilty with the expansion of the investigation

Two suspected men have admitted to the kidnapping and torture of an Italian, an Italian cryptocurrency investor who was not guilty, while the investigation of their case appears to have expanded to the New York Police Department himself.

New York Police has already been arrested William Doblisi33, and John and Woez37, on charges, in addition to a third individual, Beatrice Volchi, 24, although her trial is postponed. The victim was not publicly named.

Men are accused of kidnapping the victim and holding him as hostages in a luxurious house in the Ritzi Soho neighborhood in Manhattan for more than two weeks. During that time, New York City Police says that the trio tortured the man, forcing him to use drugs, hanging on him from the edge, urinating him, and transferring him in an attempt to force him to deliver special keys to Bitcoin. The alleged perpetrators are accused of making the victim’s shirts with a crack tube in his mouth and take a Polaroid from the victim with a pistol on his head.

The victim escaped last Friday, grabbed the laptop, exiting the house, then asking for help from a traffic officer.

Duplenssie has entered a non -built appeal to five different charges, including kidnapping with the intention of collecting ransom, kidnapping, causing physical injury, and criminal possession of a loaded firearm, and assaulting with the intention of causing a physical injury with an illegal weapon and imprisonment, according to the judicial document.

He was charged with kidnapping, assault, illegal imprisonment and possession of a firearm, and he also admitted that he was not guilty, according to the presidents of the court.

Two New York police officers, including one of the detectives appointed to the details of mayor Eric Adams, worked with Duplesie and Woeltz at work hours outside the service, and they have now been placed on a rate of average, I mentioned Bloomberg Thursday. A familiar source told Coindesk that it is not believed that the two officers are part of the kidnapping, but rather the security of the defendants. The source said that they may have pushed the victim from an airport to the Town House house, but they were not linked to his torture.

A New York police spokesman said it was “under internal review.”

“It is expected that every city employee in the city, including our officers, alike inside and outside the service. We are annoyed by these allegations, and as soon as we draw our attention, the officers have been placed on a rate of rate. The investigation is continuing,” the mayor’s office spokesman said in a statement.

Update (May 29, 2025, 22:27 UTC): He adds additional details.