{"id":470128,"date":"2025-08-01T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/how-a-police-officer-stole-50-btc-from-a-seized-crypto-wallet-and-got-caught\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:46:15","slug":"how-a-police-officer-stole-50-btc-from-a-seized-crypto-wallet-and-got-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/how-a-police-officer-stole-50-btc-from-a-seized-crypto-wallet-and-got-caught\/","title":{"rendered":"How a police officer stole 50 BTC from a seized crypto wallet and got caught"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A police officer\u2019s 50-BTC theft was unraveled by blockchain tracking. Investigators traced the funds and brought him to justice.<\/p>\n\n

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In a major breach of trust within UK law enforcement, Paul Chowles, a National Crime Agency (NCA) officer, stole 50 Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) from a seized wallet connected to Thomas White, an operator of Silk Road 2.0<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The theft occurred in 2017 when the cryptocurrency<\/a> was valued at a total of approximately 60,000 British pounds (around $79,000). By the time Chowles was caught, the crypto\u2019s value had surged to over 4.4 million pounds (around $5.9 million). The 42-year-old officer from Bristol used the dark web and crypto-mixing services<\/a> to split the stolen Bitcoin into smaller amounts, transferring them through crypto exchanges<\/a> and prepaid cards to conceal their source.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A police officer\u2019s 50-BTC theft was unraveled by blockchain tracking. Investigators traced the funds and brought him to justice. In a major breach of trust within UK law enforcement, Paul Chowles, a National Crime Agency (NCA) officer, stole 50 Bitcoin (BTC) from a seized wallet connected to Thomas White, an operator of Silk Road 2.0.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-470128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}