Second Suspect Surrenders in NYC’s Twisted Crypto Torture Case

The case of the crypto tycoon allegedly tortured in an NYC townhouse is heating up … as a result of a second suspect simply surrendered to the authorities for his purported function within the weird incident.

Sources with direct information inform TMZ … William Duplessie — a businessman from Switzerland — turned himself in Tuesday to the NYPD Main Crimes Unit.

Our sources say Duplessie is the second individual arrested in reference to the alleged abduction and torture of Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan inside a SoHo townhouse over a number of weeks.

His alleged confederate, John Woeltz, was busted Friday and charged with a number of felonies — assault, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment and felony possession of a firearm.

TMZ obtained video displaying Woeltz — barefoot and in a robe — being led by police out of the townhouse in handcuffs.

Sources with direct information inform TMZ … the three have been companions in a Bitcoin enterprise that went awry, prompting Woeltz and Duplessie to allegedly try and hijack Carturan’s crypto password to entry his account to steal his Bitcoin after luring him into their torture chamber.

For a number of weeks, Woeltz and Duplessie allegedly ordered Carturan to show over the password, however Carturan refused, resulting in his three-week nightmare starting on Might 6.

Based on a felony grievance, Woeltz and Duplessie tortured Carturan utilizing electrical wires to shock him, pistol-whipping his head and repeatedly pointing the firearm at him. Police say the suspects additionally carried Carturan to the highest of a staircase and hanged him over the facet of a ledge, threatening to kill him if he didn’t flip over the password.

Nonetheless, Carturan by no means gave in and finally escaped final Friday with solely minor accidents, flagging down a site visitors enforcement agent on the road.