TechFlow, July 17 — According to Cointelegraph, the UK Crown Prosecution Service stated that Paul Chowles, a former operational officer of the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), has been sentenced to prison for stealing 50 bitcoins (worth approximately $5.9 million today) during the investigation into Silk Road 2.0. The NCA seized 97 bitcoins from founder Thomas White when he was arrested in November 2014, but 50 of those bitcoins (then valued at around $79,000) were transferred from its wallet to another address in May 2017. "We found several notebooks in Paul Chowles' office containing usernames, passwords, and transaction records related to Thomas White's cryptocurrency accounts."
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