Ex-NCA Officer Must Repay $2.4M for Bitcoin He: Security incident

Paul Chowles took 50 BTC from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017. Prosecutors have now valued the theft at more than 30 times that.

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Sources

• https://cryptobriefing.com/nca-officer-chowles-bitcoin-theft-confiscation/
• https://decrypt.co/379702/ex-nca-officer-must-repay-2-4m-for-bitcoin-he-stole-when-it-was-worth-77k

Record history

First seen: 2026-09-30T15:17:45.000Z. Last updated: 2026-09-30T15:30:35.096Z. Revision: 1.