According to Foresight News, reported by Cointelegraph, the UK Crown Prosecution Service stated that former National Crime Agency (NCA) officer Paul Chowles has been sentenced to prison for stealing 50 bitcoins (currently worth about 5.9 million USD) during the Silk Road 2.0 investigation. The NCA seized 97 bitcoins from founder Thomas White when he was arrested in November 2014, but 50 bitcoins (then valued at about 79,000 USD) were transferred from his wallet to another address in May 2017. "We found several notebooks in Paul Chowles' office that contained usernames, passwords, and transaction records related to Thomas White's cryptocurrency accounts."

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