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New information in the Silk Road case is sending ripples of schadenfreude through the cryptocurrency community as it reacts to a foiled effort by two US Federal Agents to skim thousands of Bitcoin out of Silk Road and Mt. According to a statement issued by the United States Department of Justice on Monday, two federal agents are charged with wire fraud, money laundering and falsifying government documents for stealing Bitcoin while working on the Silk Road investigation.
The agents were bitcoin ceo dea of a Baltimore-based task force investigating the Silk Road marketplace. The two agents leveraged their status bitcoin ceo dea federal agents to mislead, pressure, and personally profit from their activities during the investigation — all of it which went unreported or unnoticed to the departments that employed them. Information in the criminal bitcoin ceo dea revealed that the Baltimore task force gained administrator access to Silk Road after arresting one of its employees.
Secret Service Agent Shaun Bridges then logged into the Silk Road admin account that afternoon to personally conduct sizeable thefts from Silk Road accounts. Little did bitcoin ceo dea know that it was Bridges, acting as the employee, who did the siphoning. During that same time — the other federal agent charged, Carl Force, reached out to Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox via Linkedin and asked if he would back Force on a sale of bitcoins. Force said he was a federal agent but was looking for other employment.
After completing these bank transfers, Bridges signed the seizure warrant against Mt. The affadavit charged that Mt. Gox was acting as a money services business without a license, unlawfully allowing people to bitcoin ceo dea bitcoins to fiat currency — bitcoin ceo dea activity which Shaun Bridges had conducted just days before. A lovely email from Carl Force after the Mt. Gox seizure mockingly told Karpeles that he should have partnered with him — an offer which was declined by Karpeles a couple days before the shutdown.
Claiming that the seizure was part of a federal investigation which was fakedCarl Force then had coinMKT move the bitcoins to his personal account at Bitstamp. Shaun Bridges and Carl Force bitcoin ceo dea millions of dollars worth of bitcoin and digital bitcoin ceo dea. The federal agents used a number of bitcoin exchanges, payment processors, and bank accounts in an attempt to move their funds bitcoin ceo dea accounts and identities. Unfortunately for them, they were unfamiliar with how Bitcoin is inherently traceable and transparent with transaction flows.
Lisa Cheng is the chief executive of the Vanbex Groupa cryptocurrency consulting firm.
