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NCA cop stole top criminal's cryptocash
Scottish Daily Express
|July 17, 2025
A NATIONAL Crime Agency officer who stole and laundered cryptocurrency from a “Dark Web” mastermind he arrested was jailed for five and-a-half years.
Father-of-three Paul Chowles, 42, was part of a team investigating Liverpudlian Thomas White, the “guiding mind” behind the Silk Road 2.0 site – an online black market for illegal drugs – at the time.
White had 97 Bitcoin on a memory stick which was seized in 2017 and transferred to a team including digital investigator Chowles at the NCA in Bristol.
This story is from the July 17, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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