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June 2, 2025 1 min
In 2021, at the height of the cryptocurrency boom, two brilliant entrepreneurs forged what seemed like the perfect partnership. Alessandro Romano, a blockchain developer from Milan, and Marcus Sterling, a charismatic crypto investor from New York, built a multi-million dollar company that revolutionized decentralized finance. But when their friendship soured over money and control, Alessandro walked away, returning to Italy to rebuild his life. He thought their toxic partnership was behind him forever.

Two years later, Marcus made a phone call that would change everything. An apology. An invitation. A chance to heal old wounds and create something even bigger together. What Alessandro didn't realize was that Marcus had spent those two years consumed by obsession and greed, plotting to steal the millions locked away in Alessandro's cryptocurrency wallets. The luxury SoHo apartment wasn't a reconciliation meeting. It was an elaborate trap.

For eight harrowing days, Alessandro endured psychological and physical torture as his former partner and accomplices tried to break him, desperate to access his digital fortune. This is the shocking true story of how the promise of cryptocurrency wealth transformed friendship into betrayal, innovation into exploitation, and a business meeting into a fight for survival. Hosted by investigative journalist Marcus Rivera, Crypto Kidnap reveals the dark underbelly of the digital gold rush.
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