Warning: This story contains distressing details about torture and graphic images

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 kidnapping during which Pleterski was threatened and tortured. The torture included waterboarding, cigarette burns and getting beaten with golf clubs as his captors drove him between several locations in southern Ontario.

These new details come from the agreed-upon statement of facts presented in Akyeam-Pong’s case. The court filing and video were previously subject to a temporary publication ban which Justice Linda Shin lifted Monday.

WATCH | 'Crypto King' held at gunpoint: 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski begs for his life during kidnapping | Duration 0:14 Wa