Self-proclaimed “Crypto King” Aiden Pleterski was on his knees begging for his life while his kidnapper pointed a gun at him and counted down from three.

Before reaching one, the kidnapper fired the gun beside Pleterski’s head.

“Where is it?” Deren Akyeam-Pong demanded after taking the shot.

The exchange is part of a 13-second video taken the night of Pleterski’s 2022 kidnapping. It was entered as an exhibit during Akyeam-Pong’s guilty plea on nine related charges including kidnapping, assault and various gun charges last month in Ontario Superior Court in Toronto.

Pleterski, now 26, thought he was meeting with a potential investor on Dec. 5, 2022, when a gun was pressed into his ribs in the backseat of a pickup truck in Toronto. The abduction was the beginning of a three-day long k

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