This could be an eye-opening view of the Crypto-Take Michael Valentino Theophlastro Carturan as he is said to be hanging over a five-story stairs while being tortured for a Bitcoin password.
A real estate photo of an eight-bedroom $21 million townhouse on Prince Street in Soho says that 28-year-old Cartalan was abused and captured for 17 days.
The Italian native, worth $30 million, was seriously injured in a horrifying episode. Meanwhile, Manhattan prosecutors alleged he was tied to a chair with an electric wire, tarsed in the water, broken leg and arm, urinated and forced to take medication.
His accused suffering – cryptography entrepreneur John Wertz and Swiss businessman William Dupressy – are allegedly destroyed Cartalan’s passport.
Cartalan was rescued after fleeing barefoot in the townhouse on May 23 and flagging traffic cops for help.
The former captive has already contacted the Italian consulate on the Upper East Side to obtain a new passport, Italian newspaper La Republica reported.
“Only on Saturday, the first contact was made between the family (he said he was following the terms and had little or no secret explanations) and between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” according to the outlet.
According to the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, his family owns a herbalist’s shop.
Authorities and sources say the Cartarians lived in Rivoli, a town in Turin, northern Italy. He studied psychology and exchanged codes before dropping out of school, the Italian media reported.
He apparently wanted to get back Bitcoin, allegedly stolen from him by Woeltz and Duplessie, and he captured him and his family, threatening to kill him and his family, and unless he gave his Bitcoin wallet a password, he threatened to kill him and his family.
Woeltz, 37, of Kentucky, is considered to be worth $100 million.
The Polaroids found at the facility showed Cartoulan (who is reportedly got a net worth of $30 million) being forced to smoke cocaine with his gun pointed at his head, authorities said.
The pair will expire in court on June 11th.
