Odaily Planet Daily News: A former National Crime Agency (NCA) officer in the UK has been sentenced to prison for stealing 50 Bitcoins during the Silk Road 2.0 investigation. Silk Road 2.0 was a successor to the original Silk Road, which went live a month after the FBI shut down the original Silk Road and arrested its founder Ross Ulbricht in October 2013. After operating for a year, it was also shut down by the FBI. Paul Chowles, an NCA action officer involved in the investigation, was responsible for extracting and analyzing the device data of the co-founder of Silk Road 2.0 during the law enforcement operation, during which 50 out of 97 Bitcoins seized were transferred in May 2017. These Bitcoins were subsequently processed through the cryptocurrency mixing service Bitcoin Fog, apparently to conceal their origin. Paul Chowles has pleaded guilty to charges of theft, transferring criminal property, and concealing criminal property, and has been sentenced to over five years in prison. The UK Crown Prosecution Service estimates that he illegally profited approximately £613,150 ($821,345) from this.

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