Super Rich Crypto Investor Allegedly Abducted and Held for Ransom – Here's What Happened

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A Canadian self-proclaimed “crypto king,” who allegedly defrauded investors out of millions, was kidnapped, tortured, and held for a multi-million-dollar ransom.

Aiden Pleterski, a 23-year-old accused of running a crypto investment scheme, was allegedly abducted from downtown Toronto and driven around southern Ontario for about three days by kidnappers demanding at least $3 million in ransom, court documents filed earlier this month claim.

Details of the abduction were revealed in court papers and transcripts from court examinations with Pleterski’s father and landlord, with whom he was able to talk via mobile phone while in the custody of kidnappers. 

“They basically held him for approximately three days, drove him around different, various parts of southern Ontario, beat him, tortured him, allowed him to make specific phone calls to specific people only. I was not one of those people that he was allowed to contact,” his father said. 

Pleterski contacted his landlord and asked for $3 million while held captive. “I said, ‘There's absolutely nothing that I can do,’” his landlord said in court after Pleterski asked him to pay the multi-million-dollar ransom.

According to the documents, Pleterski was eventually released by the kidnappers near his landlord’s residence on the condition he came up with the money fast.

The court papers, released on March 14, also shed more light on Pleterski's crypto investing business, in which he told investors he would pool their money together and invest it in cryptocurrency and foreign exchange positions.

However, the so-called "crypto king" invested less than 2% of the more than $40 million handed to him, according to the court filings. 

He spent nearly 38%, almost $16 million, on his “personal