A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was beaten, shocked and led to believe that his family was in danger if he didn’t give up his Bitcoin password.

John Woeltz, a Manhattan crypto investor, has been charged with kidnapping and torturing an Italian man to obtain Bitcoin passwords in a brutal Soho ordeal.

The so-called 'crypto bros' including Woeltz allegedly tied the victim up using electrical cords and gave him electric shock, including using a Taser while his feet were in water.