🇬🇧 An analyst from the UK National Crime Agency received 5.5 years in prison for stealing 50 $BTC

💵 As the chief expert in the dark web and cryptocurrency, Paul Chouls was entrusted with access keys to crypto wallets seized from the co-founder of the dark web market Silk Road 2.0. Chouls sent 50 BTC to his address and then laundered it through a mixer.

📆 After 5 years, the police decided to re-investigate the transaction chain and found that the traces led to addresses where Chouls underwent KYC.

Such a drawn-out debacle occurred. For 5 years, the officer flaunted the stolen bitcoins, which were worth pennies back then, but now he could sell them for millions of dollars (but they were seized from him). 😆